Aristotle Familial Love Analysis

Familial Love: the Path of Least Rejection

In this paper, I will argue that familial love is the most pure and true by an evaluation Aristotle’s views on friendship and love. Everyone has a different view on love and most generally believe in a multitude of shades of love. Aristotle does as well. Although he believes in three distinct types of friendship. “Hence friendship has three species, corresponding to the three objects of love. For each object of love has a corresponding type of mutual loving, combined with awareness of it.” (Aristotle, 121). Aristotle believes that love directly corresponds with objects for example the first type of friendship is based on utility (Aristotle, 121) in which the friendship derives from each friend benefiting the other. This …show more content…
The second type of friendship is based on pleasure. Which unlike the friendship based in utility is found more in younger people, who Aristotle believes let their emotions and feelings lead their lives (Aristotle, 122). He also argues that “young people are prone to erotic passion, since this mostly accords with feelings, and is caused by pleasure; that is why they love and quickly stop, often changing in a single day.” (Aristotle, 122). Both friendships based on utility and on pleasure are likely to “dissolve” because of their reliance on what each of the friend receives. In friendships of utility, if one friend stops being of use to the other then the friendship fades. This friendship could be seen as shallow, due to the fact that the friend is focusing on what they are gaining from the relationship. In the friendship based on passion is stronger than the first and often very powerful yet short. Which is more heartfelt