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What Friendship is: The Three Main Types of Aristotelian Friendship | Professor Michael Gorman

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The Role of Friendship in Anxiety

Knowing the three types of friendship is not going to all by itself do anything for your anxiety or your crises, but it may help you understand. I don't know if Aristotle considers like relationships which will be good of other people and go to his will by one and because of goodness, but just don't enjoy spending time. And whether or not feel like genuinely and properly send that kind of relationship. It's complicated by two things. One is that the particular examples that you're using are examples of friendship in the family, which Aristotle talks about. The other thing is that it's an unequal relationship, which Aristotle talk about.

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