亚里士多德论友爱

Aristotle:on Friendship

亚里士多德的友爱论是他的伦理学的重要组成部分。亚里士多德认为,友爱是生活中最为必需的德性,友爱的基础在于共同性。他强调作为朋友就要共同生活,所以,一个人不可能同时拥有许多朋友。朋友是另一个自我,对朋友的爱就是对自己的爱。亚里士多德友爱论的这些思想使我们有理由相信亚里士多德的德性论传统有可能在今天得到一定程度上的复兴。

Aristotle＇s theory on friendship is the most important part of his ethics. Aristotle considers that friendship is the necessary virture for living,with commonality as its foundation. He stresses that friends should live togather. It＇s impossible for one to have more than one friend. A friend is another oneself, in a word, the love to a friend is the love one to himself. It＇s reasonable for us to belive that Aristotle＇s ideas about friendship can help to promote the traditional morality ethics of Aristotle to be reborn in a way.