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The Review of metaphysics, 2012-06, Vol.65 (4), p.765-794
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Washington: Philosophy Education Society, Inc., The Catholic University of America
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
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(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) I ROUGHLY THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO John Cooper published two articles on Aristotle's account of friendship, remarking in one of them that Aristotle's treatment of this subject in Nicomachean Ethics had not much engaged the attention of scholars.1 Cooper drew attention to Aristotle's integration of friendship with happiness: "When Aristotle asks, then, whether a flourishing person needs friends, he is inquiring whether the having of friends is a necessary constituent of a flourishing life - not whether friends are needed as a means of improving a life that was already flourishing. The difficulty implied in this contrast does not demonstrate a decisive contradiction in the concern for moral virtue, nor does it demonstrate that courage is foolish or aims at a sham good. m The difficulty implied in this contrast does suggest an inferiority of the life of moral virtue and the friendship based in it to the life of contemplative virtue and the friendship based in it with respect to their suitability to human nature.105 Contemplative friendship, understood as most fully compatible with human nature, provides a helpful point of reference for interpreting the meaning of Aristotle's call to strive to live in accord with the divine or most divine part of us.106 Contemplative friendship seems to be the human way to pursue the highest life simply.