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Single Idea 5264

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism]

Full Idea

The proverb 'friends have all things is common' is quite right, because friendship is based on community.

Gist of Idea

Friendship is based on a community of sharing

Source

Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1159b30)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.273


A Reaction

Thus communism is a kind of sentimental dream that everybody will be friends. The aspiration of all good people should be to spread the boundaries of the networks of friends to be ever more inclusive. This is the new left-wing of politics.