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things that contribute greatly to friendship are a common upbringing and
similarity of age; for ‘two of an age take to each other’, and people brought
up together tend to be comrades; whence the friendship of brothers is akin to
that of comrades. And cousins and other kinsmen are bound up together by
derivation from brothers, viz. by being derived from the same parents. They
come to be closer together or farther apart by virtue of the nearness or
distance of the original ancestor.
The friendship of children to parents, and of men to gods, is a relation to
them as to something good and superior; for they have conferred the greatest
benefits, since they are the causes of their being and of their nourishment, and
of their education from their birth; and this kind of friendship possesses
pleasantness and utility also, more than that of strangers, inasmuch as their
life is lived more in common. The friendship of brothers has the
characteristics found in that of comrades (and especially when these are
good), and in general between people who are like each other, inasmuch as
they belong more to each other and start with a love for each other from their
very birth, and inasmuch as those born of the same parents and brought up
together and similarly educated are more akin in character; and the test of
time has been applied most fully and convincingly in their case.
Between other kinsmen friendly relations are found in due proportion.
Between man and wife friendship seems to exist by nature; for man is
naturally inclined to form couples-even more than to form cities, inasmuch as
the household is earlier and more necessary than the city, and reproduction is
more common to man with the animals. With the other animals the union
extends only to this point, but human beings live together not only for the
sake of reproduction but also for the various purposes of life; for from the
start the functions are divided, and those of man and woman are different; so
they help each other by throwing their peculiar gifts into the common stock. It
is for these reasons that both utility and pleasure seem to be found in this kind
of friendship. But this friendship may be based also on virtue, if the parties
are good; for each has its own virtue and they will delight in the fact. And
children seem to be a bond of union (which is the reason why childless people
part more easily); for children are a good common to both and what is
common holds them together.
How man and wife and in general friend and friend ought mutually to
behave seems to be the same question as how it is just for them to behave; for
a man does not seem to have the same duties to a friend, a stranger, a
comrade, and a schoolfellow.
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The Complete Aristotle
- Titel
- The Complete Aristotle
- Autor
- Aristotle
- Datum
- ~322 B.C.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156