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Aristotle on Friendship Types

Aristotle believed that friendship was necessary for a good life. He identified three types of friendships based on utility, pleasure, and goodness. Friendship based on utility involves both people benefiting from the relationship, but it is shallow and easily dissolved. Friendship based on pleasure is drawn from qualities like wit and looks, but it is fleeting and unstable. The highest form is friendship based on goodness, where people wish good for friends regardless of other benefits, though this type of complete friendship is rare to obtain.

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Aristotle on Friendship Types

Aristotle believed that friendship was necessary for a good life. He identified three types of friendships based on utility, pleasure, and goodness. Friendship based on utility involves both people benefiting from the relationship, but it is shallow and easily dissolved. Friendship based on pleasure is drawn from qualities like wit and looks, but it is fleeting and unstable. The highest form is friendship based on goodness, where people wish good for friends regardless of other benefits, though this type of complete friendship is rare to obtain.

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Aristotle’s views on

FRIENDSHIP
Presented by:
Syeda Hafsa Maruf
Daniya Ali
Isma Saeed
Tooba Ayaz
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED?
• Friendship- a choice or a necessity?

• Aristotle regards friendship necessary for a good life. But


what does friendship have to do with a good life?

• Man- being a social animal- interacts with other people


and forms different relationships. Chief among these
companionships are friendships or philia.

• Aristotle’s ethics- what makes a man good? So, goods


such as friendship, need to be practiced for a virtuous life.
ON WHAT BASIS DO WE MAKE FRIENDS?

FOR FOR FOR


UTILITY PLEASURE GOODNESS
Friendship based on Utility
Both people take some benefit from each
other.
This kind of friendship is
Shallow.
Easily dissolved.
A relationship of this sort lasts only so long as
its utility.
Friendship based on Utility
Friendship based on pleasure
• In Aristotle’s view, it is based on where both
people are drawn to the other’s wit, good
looks, or other pleasant qualities.

• It is normally built between the young as


passions and pleasures are great influences in
their lives.
Characteristics
• It is characterized by such feelings as passion
between lovers.

• The feeling of belonging among a likeminded


group of friends.
Drawbacks
• Aristotle views this type of relationship as
fleeting and target of constant change.

• It is built upon passion and is motivated by


pleasure.

• It is unstable and volatile for it misleads you.


Outcome
• The person who selfishly seeks the benefits of
pleasure will callously seek out , good food,
and other pleasures, not caring who gets hurt
along the way.

• People who seek only pleasure for themselves


are not treating themselves well, just as
people who use friends for pleasure are not
treating those friends well
Friendship based on pleasure
Friendship based on goodness
 Highest form of friendship
 People wish good for their friends, regardless of
their utility or pleasure.
 It is long-lasting
 Complete sort of friendship between people who
are good and alike in virtue.
 There cant be large amount of friends.
Tough to obtain these type of people are hard to come by

it takes a lot of work to have complete, virtuous friendship

 Must value loving over being loved.


 Encompasses the other two kinds.
 Difference between the three kinds- what exactly
is valued
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