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Nicomachean Ethics: Friendship Is Still Relevant Today

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At the end of the day I don’t think anyone wants to be along. There that yearning to have companionship with another person. Someone who you can talk to or even just to be around them. The key stone to any relationship is friendship. According to Aristotle’s book The Nicomachean Ethics, friendship is necessary for our life. Some people may think that they can survivor on their own but in reality you cannot make it on your own regardless who you are. Every friendship has it purpose. Weather if it short or long term you will need someone to help you along the way of life. One of the most important relationships you can have in life it Friendship. To me it is the foundation of having a good relationship of any type. Without friendship not one person can survivor. You will always have that one person who will help you exceed in what you want out of life. Regardless if it your significate other, parent/child or business relationship it all starts with some type of friendship. Aristotle discuss there are 3 type of friendship; Utility, Pleasure and Complete. Any one of these friendship are important and will be relevant to a person that will be in need of a friend some point in their life. Throughout this paper I will give details supporting Aristotle’s argument to, “why is friendship necessary?” in the Nicomachean Ethics. Then I will argue why friendship is important from my point of view and how it is still relevant today even if you think you don’t need friends. …show more content…

(Aristotle, p. 119). In this statement he is saying that it doesn’t matter of your status in life we all need friends. You can have all the money in the world but it won’t buy you friendship. In this case your personal possessions can’t make you

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