Aristotle's Friendship

The nature of friendship is different in the eyes of Aristotle. Walking into class on the first day of school I did not think about the concept of love profoundly. My previous definition of love was when one person loved and cared for another. As the classes went by, I engagingly read the assigned books and starting thinking about the idea of love as more complex. Aristotle separates the meaning of one emotion to several divergent categories. I understood that loving your favorite bag of chips is completely unlike loving a family member. From just a few weeks of learning and expanding my thoughts, I began understanding how love has many variations and how we can have different types of friendships.

From reading Aristotle the word friendship

This type of friendship occurs between two people who are alike and carry the same values and morals and must be virtuous. According to Aristotle one person can become virtuous with age and wisdom. The people in these type of relationships are not in it because they gain something, they are not friends because one is useful but solely because they find the same virtue they see in themself.

It can be argued that Aristotle can be wrong about defining the relationships of virtue, pleasure and utility. Can we humans complete an unselfish act ;are we able to be friends with someone not for our own self but for the sake of our friends? To me I completely disagree with aristotle and his statements.

When we give a gift to someone do we pick it out because he/she will like it or do we pick it out and give it to them to be rewarded and make a good impression? My opinion is that people will give gifts to get some type of repayment, as in to be liked or to be more accepted. Another example would be helping a homeless man or women by donating money. Do you give money to actually help or do you give money for self satisfaction? In my opinion rather being even if you have the slightest amount of though of what you are getting in return after giving a gift or donation money you are being selfish. We as humans are always and will

I have encountered many different friendships but I never really took a deeper understanding of what kind of friendship I have with every person. By knowing the different types of friendships it was easier to establish who was just there to use me and who was actually by my side. I also got to take a look at myself as a friend to other people and got to distinguish how I treated them. I noticed that I wouldn't want to be a friend of utility because I wouldn't want to be used just for one small amount of time. I also would not want to he a friend of pleasure as well because I just don't want to go out with people for the pleasure of doing something I enjoy and not have a deeper connection. I want to have a friendship of pleasure because I want to be able to connect with someone on a deeper perspective and love the same things as I do without having to force connections. Thinking about my own life experience, I would like to explain what I understand about the word friendship, taking into account my own life and all situations that occurred with me. The word friendship gives me an idea of one being honest and pure. In my opinion being a friend is about loving and caring for one another while having the same ideals and morals for life itself. It is in corresponding with having another friend exactly alike as you “Friendship is a single soul