Love Life: Aristotle on Living Together with Friends

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 53 (6):579-601 (2010)
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Abstract

According to Aristotle, the most characteristic activity of friendship is “living together” [to suzên]. This paper seeks to understand living together in the light of his famous, foundational claim that humans are social by nature. Based on an interpretation of Nicomachean Ethics 9.9, I explain our need for friends in terms of a more fundamental human need to appreciate one's life as a whole. I then argue that friendship is built into the very structure of human life itself such that human living is living together

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Irene Liu
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