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Let us now turn to Friendship and Enmity, and ask towards whom these
feelings are entertained, and why. We will begin by defining and friendly
feeling. We may describe friendly feeling towards any one as wishing for him
what you believe to be good things, not for your own sake but for his, and
being inclined, so far as you can, to bring these things about. A friend is one
who feels thus and excites these feelings in return: those who think they feel
thus towards each other think themselves friends. This being assumed, it
follows that your friend is the sort of man who shares your pleasure in what is
good and your pain in what is unpleasant, for your sake and for no other
reason. This pleasure and pain of his will be the token of his good wishes for
you, since we all feel glad at getting what we wish for, and pained at getting
what we do not. Those, then, are friends to whom the same things are good
and evil; and those who are, moreover, friendly or unfriendly to the same
people; for in that case they must have the same wishes, and thus by wishing
for each other what they wish for themselves, they show themselves each
other’s friends. Again, we feel friendly to those who have treated us well,
either ourselves or those we care for, whether on a large scale, or readily, or at
some particular crisis; provided it was for our own sake. And also to those
who we think wish to treat us well. And also to our friends’ friends, and to
those who like, or are liked by, those whom we like ourselves. And also to
those who are enemies to those whose enemies we are, and dislike, or are
disliked by, those whom we dislike. For all such persons think the things good
which we think good, so that they wish what is good for us; and this, as we
saw, is what friends must do. And also to those who are willing to treat us
well where money or our personal safety is concerned: and therefore we value
those who are liberal, brave, or just. The just we consider to be those who do
not live on others; which means those who work for their living, especially
farmers and others who work with their own hands. We also like temperate
men, because they are not unjust to others; and, for the same reason, those
who mind their own business. And also those whose friends we wish to be, if
it is plain that they wish to be our friends: such are the morally good, and
those well thought of by every one, by the best men, or by those whom we
admire or who admire us. And also those with whom it is pleasant to live and
spend our days: such are the good-tempered, and those who are not too ready
to show us our mistakes, and those who are not cantankerous or quarrelsome-
such people are always wanting to fight us, and those who fight us we feel
wish for the opposite of what we wish for ourselves-and those who have the
tact to make and take a joke; here both parties have the same object in view,
when they can stand being made fun of as well as do it prettily themselves.
And we also feel friendly towards those who praise such good qualities as we
possess, and especially if they praise the good qualities that we are not too
sure we do possess. And towards those who are cleanly in their person, their
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- The Complete Aristotle
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- Aristotle
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- ~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