Questions tagged [friendship]
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Is obedience necessary for friendship?
Is obedience necessary for friendship?
Aristotle doesn't speak of obedience in his discussion of friendship in Ethics bk. 9, but he does speak of a sort of friendship: concord, which St. Thomas says ...
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Friendships towards humans vs. things and animals in Plato's Lysis
In Plato's Lysis, Socrates and Menexenus argue if friendship must be reciprocal:
S: Then this notion is not in accordance with our previous one. We were saying that both were friends, if one only ...
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In moral-psychology terms, is it in vain, if not downright counterproductive, to compare inner moral issues to combat, esp. as per Kantian ethics?
Note: this question concerns the reason I started posting on this SE years ago, and has to do with my obsession with universal sets, anti-terms (antisets of late), the morality of punishment and ...
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In the Doctrine of Virtue, does Kant accidentally encode a solution to the redemption problem from his theory of radical evil?
The set-up. Having identified original sin as an inversion of our maxims vs. their intended order of priority, Kant goes on to note that the nature of radical evil makes it empirically impossible to ...
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Ternary logic of 3-person human relationships?
C.S. Peirce studied ternary (and higher-order, n-ary logic, too) logic in the context of which he called semiosis,
an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a coöperation of three subjects, […],...
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What is a good reference on Aristotle's views of friendship (φιλία)?
What is a good reference on Aristotle's views of friendship (φιλία)?
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Aristotle quote on how developing friendship takes a long time
Conor Gallagher, If Aristotle's Kid Had an iPod: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Parents ch. 10 says:
“WISHING TO BE FRIENDS IS QUICK WORK, BUT FRIENDSHIP IS A SLOW RIPENING FRUIT.”—ARISTOTLE
I'm assuming ...
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Aristotle: friendship between men > friendship between women?
Aristotle thought friendship between equals was greater than that between unequals, but did he think friendship among greater equals is greater than friendship between lesser equals?
E.g., friendships ...
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Aristotle on forgiveness?
Discussing "complaints" in friendship (Ethics book 8), Aristotle does not mention the role of forgiveness in resolving such complaints (ἐγκλήματα) or quarrels (μέμψεις).
Does Aristotle ...
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