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The Ethical And Political Dimensions Of Friendship In Aristotle's Philosophy

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    The Ethical and Political Dimensions of Friendship in Aristotle's Philosophy In Aristotle's view, friendship plays a central role in both ethics and politics. In your essay, you explore the concept of political friendship and its ethical implications. Drawing upon the Nicomachean Ethics and other relevant sources, critically analyze the relationship between personal friendship and political friendship, considering Aristotle's definitions of goodness, happiness, and justice. Discuss how these concepts contribute to the development of both individual and community relationships. Word Count Requirement: 2000 - 2500 words

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    ARISTOTLE AND ETHICS Introduction: Aristotle has done a unique discussion on the political community and frie ndship. Friendship is a pure relation and it happens with a person who is almost a reflection of self. Aristotle points out that however, political friendship is different than the regular friendship. Political friendship has some political interests or preferences to it and thus cannot be said the purest form of friendship (Eleni Leontsini, 1998) . A friend is another self and thus friendship is one of the easiest relations one can have with another person. This is the reason relation of friendship is connected with the mor al approaches in philosophy. The discussion about friendship according to Aristotle’s view is thus con sidered most thoughtful, deep seated and enduring experience occurred to humanity (Elena Irrera, 2008) . Aristotle’s view on mixing of politics and friendship is thus studied thoroughly and it is basically mixing politics and ethics (Ann Ward, 2011) . This is elaborated by describing the political shades of friendship. Friendship contains a diverse range of emotions and it has traditional and untraditional approaches. The untraditional approaches does not mean unfaithful or wrong approach for friendship but it cannot be said as the purest form of f riendship it is often mixed with other types of feelings (Eleni Leontsini, 1998) . Aristotle definition of friendship is mixed with the classical definition of the self. The political connotations attached with friendship also gives a new dimension to the ethical approaches involve in the two approaches. Thesis Statement: The thesis statement is the political and ethical approaches of friendship according to Aristotle. There is great emphasis given to the equation of friendship in political and social

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