Page - 1890 - in The Complete Aristotle
Image of the Page - 1890 -
Text of the Page - 1890 -
Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX
Translated by W. D. Ross
<
div class=“section” title=“1”>
1
In all friendships between dissimilars it is, as we have said, proportion that
equalizes the parties and preserves the friendship; e.g. in the political form of
friendship the shoemaker gets a return for his shoes in proportion to his
worth, and the weaver and all other craftsmen do the same. Now here a
common measure has been provided in the form of money, and therefore
everything is referred to this and measured by this; but in the friendship of
lovers sometimes the lover complains that his excess of love is not met by
love in return though perhaps there is nothing lovable about him), while often
the beloved complains that the lover who formerly promised everything now
performs nothing. Such incidents happen when the lover loves the beloved for
the sake of pleasure while the beloved loves the lover for the sake of utility,
and they do not both possess the qualities expected of them. If these be the
objects of the friendship it is dissolved when they do not get the things that
formed the motives of their love; for each did not love the other person
himself but the qualities he had, and these were not enduring; that is why the
friendships also are transient. But the love of characters, as has been said,
endures because it is self-dependent. Differences arise when what they get is
something different and not what they desire; for it is like getting nothing at
all when we do not get what we aim at; compare the story of the person who
made promises to a lyre-player, promising him the more, the better he sang,
but in the morning, when the other demanded the fulfilment of his promises,
said that he had given pleasure for pleasure. Now if this had been what each
wanted, all would have been well; but if the one wanted enjoyment but the
other gain, and the one has what he wants while the other has not, the terms of
the association will not have been properly fulfilled; for what each in fact
wants is what he attends to, and it is for the sake of that that that he will give
what he has.
But who is to fix the worth of the service; he who makes the sacrifice or he
who has got the advantage? At any rate the other seems to leave it to him.
This is what they say Protagoras used to do; whenever he taught anything
1890
back to the
book The Complete Aristotle"
The Complete Aristotle
- Title
- The Complete Aristotle
- Author
- Aristotle
- Date
- ~322 B.C.
- Language
- English
- License
- PD
- Size
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Pages
- 2328
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Antique, Philosophie, Antike, Dialogues, Metaphysik, Metaphysics, Ideologie, Ideology, Englisch
- Categories
- Geisteswissenschaften
- International
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