Da amizade na Ética a Nicômaco de Aristóteles

Abstract

The present monograph aims to present friendship according to Aristotle in his work The Nicomachean Ethics ; more precisely, how we relate to each other from friendship. At first, Aristotle's conception of Human Being as a political animal is presented, which implies, among other things, the natural need to live in community. Friendship is one of the most important virtues for good interpersonal relationships and therefore for living in community. Such work had been divided into three chapters, the first: TYPES OF FRIENDSHIP that presents the need and nobility of friendship, the relationship between what is worthy of friendship, the three types of friendship, the contrasts between the types of friendship, the state of friendship, friendship as an activity and the relations between the three types of friendship; The second chapter: THE RECIPROCITY OF FRIENDSHIP that presents the essence of friendship in loving and being loved, relationships in unequal friendships, the parallel and correspondence between justice and friendship, and the political systems in analogy to family relationships; The third and final chapter: INNER NATURE AND NEED FOR FRIENDSHIP that deals with self-love, the essence of friendship, and the need for friendship in sadness and happiness. From this content we have the conclusion that the feeling of friendship for another one derives from the relationship that the human being has with himself, therefore, being a friend is to rejoice in doing good to others as well as rejoices to do good for oneself; A friend is one who desires the good life of his friend for the good of this friend, just as one wishes to live well; therefore, as a human being is to himself, so will he be to his friend.