![]() ![]() FROM THE FACT THAT REPAYMENT IS NOT WHAT WAS DESERVED. But friendship based on virtue remains, as we have indicated, because each friend is loved for himself.Ģ. The parties did not love one another for themselves but for advantages to be gained, and these were not enduring hence neither were the friendships enduring. These accusations are made when the lover seeks pleasure and the beloved, utility and neither has the qualities the other seeks, Consequently, the friendship is broken off since the very reasons why it was formed no longer remain. He shows in which friendships this occurs. On the other hand, the beloved very often complains that the lover had promised everything before, but now fulfills nothing.ī. In friendship, however, the lover sometimes complains because his lavish love is not returned-but perhaps he has nothing deserving of love. He proposes the cause of the disturbance. FROM THE FACT THAT ONE FRIEND DOES NOT REPAY THE OTHER. ![]() How friendship is disturbed by lack of a proportionate measure. cannot happen in an exchange based on justice. HE SHOWS HOW FRIENDSHIP IS DISTURBED BY THE ABSENCE OF THIS MEANS. A similar thing is done to the weaver and to other artisans. In all friendships of dissimilar persons proportion equates the parties and preserves friendship, as has been indicated.” Thus in justice between citizens a return according to value is made to the shoemaker for the shoes he gives. ![]() HE PROPOSES A MEANS OF PRESERVING FRIENDSHIP. Proportionate Properties in Friendship Chapter 1 ![]()
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