In the articles of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII, Immanuel Kant’s Lecture On Friendship, and Sir Francis Bacon’s Of Friendship XXVII, all incorporate a recurring theme of friendship. Aristotle, Kant, and Bacon explain that there are different types of friendship, which are not easily understood. The three types of friendship in Aristotle's words include pleasure, utility, and virtue. Although these are essential for a human social growth, a virtuous friendship is the key to happiness, because it provides growth and support for oneself. Although a friendship can be derived strictly off pleasure, it is not likely to be in complete harmony with happiness. This is due to pleasure consistently changing and once that pleasure changes,
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This comes through the form of a friendship and prosperity for one another. Aristotle states, “For each of these friends has a different virtue and a different function, and there are different because of love. Hence the ways of loving are different, and so are the friendships” (1158b: 15-20). This quotation is important because it presents a new understanding of friendship. Through this quotation, Aristotle’s explains that friendship is love, which means love is the absolute form of happiness. Similarly, Sir Francis Bacon explains that a fruit of friendship is the key to happiness. Bacon states, “a principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swelling of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce” (202). There are three fruits of friendship that include affection, understanding, and aid, which are the qualities of a perfect friend because they provide the fullness and swelling of the …show more content…
This is the most essential because most people consider others virtuous friends, but would not be willing to trust them with one’s own family. Bacon contradicts this idea: “...the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure, that the care of those things, will continue after him” (207). This is a powerful quotation because he states that the love in one’s life will be cared by only a virtuous friend. It is imperative to have a this type of friend, because one cannot complete a life without help: “how many things there are, which a man cannot do himself… that a friend is another himself: for that a friend is far more than himself” (207). This quotation is important because it exhibits that a friend must be someone a friend can turn to in times of
This comes through the form of a friendship and prosperity for one another. Aristotle states, “For each of these friends has a different virtue and a different function, and there are different because of love. Hence the ways of loving are different, and so are the friendships” (1158b: 15-20). This quotation is important because it presents a new understanding of friendship. Through this quotation, Aristotle’s explains that friendship is love, which means love is the absolute form of happiness. Similarly, Sir Francis Bacon explains that a fruit of friendship is the key to happiness. Bacon states, “a principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swelling of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce” (202). There are three fruits of friendship that include affection, understanding, and aid, which are the qualities of a perfect friend because they provide the fullness and swelling of the …show more content…
This is the most essential because most people consider others virtuous friends, but would not be willing to trust them with one’s own family. Bacon contradicts this idea: “...the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure, that the care of those things, will continue after him” (207). This is a powerful quotation because he states that the love in one’s life will be cared by only a virtuous friend. It is imperative to have a this type of friend, because one cannot complete a life without help: “how many things there are, which a man cannot do himself… that a friend is another himself: for that a friend is far more than himself” (207). This quotation is important because it exhibits that a friend must be someone a friend can turn to in times of