Book contents
- Aristotle’s Anthropology
- Aristotle’s Anthropology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Human Beings as Rational Animals
- Part II Human Nature in the Light of Aristotle’s Biology
- Part III Aristotle’s Moral Anthropology
- Chapter 8 Why Human Virtue Is the Measure of All Virtue
- Chapter 9 Aristotle on Friendship and Being Human
- Chapter 10 Aristotle on the Possibility of Moral Perfection
- Part IV Aristotle’s Political Anthropology
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 9 - Aristotle on Friendship and Being Human
from Part III - Aristotle’s Moral Anthropology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2019
- Aristotle’s Anthropology
- Aristotle’s Anthropology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Human Beings as Rational Animals
- Part II Human Nature in the Light of Aristotle’s Biology
- Part III Aristotle’s Moral Anthropology
- Chapter 8 Why Human Virtue Is the Measure of All Virtue
- Chapter 9 Aristotle on Friendship and Being Human
- Chapter 10 Aristotle on the Possibility of Moral Perfection
- Part IV Aristotle’s Political Anthropology
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Human beings are not the only social animals, according to Aristotle. He doesn’t even think they are the only political animals. And in the beginning of book 8 of the Nicomachean Ethics, he suggests that non-human animals can also be friends with each other: most of them entertain friendships with their young, as well as with other members of their own species.1 So, is friendship not uniquely human either?
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- Aristotle's Anthropology , pp. 182 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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