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where there is nothing common to ruler and ruled, there is not friendship
either, since there is not justice; e.g. between craftsman and tool, soul and
body, master and slave; the latter in each case is benefited by that which uses
it, but there is no friendship nor justice towards lifeless things. But neither is
there friendship towards a horse or an ox, nor to a slave qua slave. For there is
nothing common to the two parties; the slave is a living tool and the tool a
lifeless slave. Qua slave then, one cannot be friends with him. But qua man
one can; for there seems to be some justice between any man and any other
who can share in a system of law or be a party to an agreement; therefore
there can also be friendship with him in so far as he is a man. Therefore while
in tyrannies friendship and justice hardly exist, in democracies they exist
more fully; for where the citizens are equal they have much in common.
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Every form of friendship, then, involves association, as has been said. One
might, however, mark off from the rest both the friendship of kindred and that
of comrades. Those of fellow-citizens, fellow-tribesmen, fellow-voyagers,
and the like are more like mere friendships of association; for they seem to
rest on a sort of compact. With them we might class the friendship of host and
guest. The friendship of kinsmen itself, while it seems to be of many kinds,
appears to depend in every case on parental friendship; for parents love their
children as being a part of themselves, and children their parents as being
something originating from them. Now (1) arents know their offspring better
than there children know that they are their children, and (2) the originator
feels his offspring to be his own more than the offspring do their begetter; for
the product belongs to the producer (e.g. a tooth or hair or anything else to
him whose it is), but the producer does not belong to the product, or belongs
in a less degree. And (3) the length of time produces the same result; parents
love their children as soon as these are born, but children love their parents
only after time has elapsed and they have acquired understanding or the
power of discrimination by the senses. From these considerations it is also
plain why mothers love more than fathers do. Parents, then, love their
children as themselves (for their issue are by virtue of their separate existence
a sort of other selves), while children love their parents as being born of them,
and brothers love each other as being born of the same parents; for their
identity with them makes them identical with each other (which is the reason
why people talk of ‘the same blood’, ‘the same stock’, and so on). They are,
therefore, in a sense the same thing, though in separate individuals. Two
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Table of contents
- 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