Book 8 Nicomachean Ethics

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Book 8 nicomachean ethics. Friendship is essential to the virtuous life. 1 for friendship is a virtue 2 or involves virtue. For no one would choose to live without friends but possessing all other good things.

For without friends no one would choose to live though he had all. Perfect for acing essays tests and quizzes as well as for writing lesson plans. People can share their prosperity with friends during good times and friends can help guard their riches.

1985 dr david ross oxford university press 1980 jt j a k. Friendship s necessary even for the wealthy and young who need protection and saving from mistakes respectively. Nicomachean ethics march 2000.

Even if someone had everything else they needed they would not want to live without friends. Ti terence irwin hackett publishing co. Book i 1 every art and every inquiry and similarly every action and pursuit is thought to aim at some good.

And a virtuous person wishes good to the beloved for his own sake in accord with their state not their feeling also the friendship of good people is one of equality. A summary of part x section8 in aristotle s nicomachean ethics. And also it is one of the most indispensable requirements of life.

And for this reason the good has rightly. Aristotle also clarifies that while loving is a feeling friendship is a state. Book 8 chapter 5 6.