Loneliness and Friendship: Aquinas' Cure for What Ails the Soul | Prof. Thomas Hibbs
The Thomistic Institute
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Aristotle's Friendships of Pleasure and of Utility
Aristotle says friendship is a very, you can give precise types like pleasure, utility and virtue. He also thinks that virtuous friendships are both pleasurable and useful. I think acquaintances would probably be although you could have work acquaintances,. That could become friendships of utility. But if it's practiced lightly, we actually take a kind of delight in doing the right thing for others. And Aristotle would say that's an element of friendship, right?
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