Friendship and happiness in Aristotle: why do we need friends?
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Author: Hector Zagal
Rating: 177.62 Zag-a
Synopsis:
Aristotle's main concern is undoubtedly ours as well: how to achieve happiness? Understood as the optimal and constant exercise of reason, happiness requires good health, a certain dose of material comfort and, especially, the exercise of the moral and intellectual virtues that lead us to the optimal display of our lives. And among the virtues, the most necessary to enjoy a full life is friendship. Perfect friendship, intense, intimate and conscious love, deliberate, reciprocal and virtuous. Virtue that is acquired and cultivated with personal effort, not as a gift of nature but as an achievement of the individual.
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