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[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship
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Full Idea
We value friendship for its own sake, even if we are not likely to get anything else from it.
Gist of Idea
We value friendship just for its own sake
Source
Aristotle (Topics [c.331 BCE], 117a03)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics and Topica', ed/tr. Tredennick,H/Forster,ES [Harvard 1960], p.391
A Reaction
In 'Ethics' he distinguishes some friendships which don't meet this requirement. Presumably true friendships survive all vicissitudes (except betrayal), but that makes such things fairly rare.
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[close personal relationships as a virtue]:
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294
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People say that friendship exists only between good men
[Plato]
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156
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Bad people are never really friends with one another
[Plato]
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3027
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Cyrenaics say wise men are self-sufficient, needing no friends
[Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius]
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2686
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Aristotle does not confine supreme friendship to moral heroes
[Cooper,JM on Aristotle]
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2687
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For Aristotle in the best friendships the binding force is some excellence of character
[Cooper,JM on Aristotle]
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85
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Bad men can have friendships of utility or pleasure, but only good men can be true friends
[Aristotle]
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23919
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Friendship cannot be immediate; it takes time, and needs testing
[Aristotle]
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23920
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Decent people can be friends with base people
[Aristotle]
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2808
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Master and slave can have friendship through common interests
[Aristotle]
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12275
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We value friendship just for its own sake
[Aristotle]
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1843
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Friendship is by far the most important ingredient of a complete and happy life
[Epicurus]
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511
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It is better to have one intelligent friend than many unintelligent
[Democritus (attr)]
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7895
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Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone
[Anon (Dham)]
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7916
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True friendship is even rarer than true love
[Rochefoucauld]
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21093
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Friendship without community spirit misses out on the main part of virtue
[Hume]
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14841
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Many people are better at having good friends than being a good friend
[Nietzsche]
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14843
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Women can be friends with men, but only some physical antipathy will maintain it
[Nietzsche]
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18295
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If you want friends, you must be a fighter
[Nietzsche]
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23834
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Friendship is partly universal - the love of a person is like the ideal of loving everyone
[Weil]
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7094
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Friends express friendship even when no utility is involved
[Statman]
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2685
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The Greek 'philia' covers all good and fruitful relationships
[Cooper,JM]
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