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Michael of Ephesus/Aspasius/Anonymus - On Aristotle "Nicomachean" (Hardcover)
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Michael of Ephesus/Aspasius/Anonymus - On Aristotle "Nicomachean" (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Aristotle devotes books 8-9 of the "Nicomachean Ethics" to
friendship, distinguishing three kinds: a primary kind motivated by
the other's character; and other kinds motivated by utility or
pleasure. He takes up Plato's idea that one knows oneself better as
reflected in another's eyes, as providing one of the benefits of
friendship, and he also sees true friendship as modelled on true
self-love. He further compares friendship with justice, and
illustrates the ubiquity of friendship by referring to the way in
which we help wayfarers as if they were kin (oikeion), a word he
takes from Plato's discussion of love. In many of these respects he
probably influenced the Stoic theory of justice as based on the
natural kinship (oikeiotes) one feels initially for oneself at
birth and, eventually, for lost wayfarers. Of the three
commentaries translated here, that by the second-century AD
Aristotelian Aspasius is the earliest extant commentary on
Aristotle; the second is by Michael of Ephesus in the twelfth
century; the third is of unknown date and authorship. Aspasius
worries whether there is only one kind of friendship with a single
definition. But he plumps for a verdict not given by Aristotle,
that the primary kind of friendship serves as a focal point for
defining the other two. Aspasius picks up connections with his
Stoic contemporaries. Michael cites Christians and draws from
Neoplatonists the idea that there is a self-aware part of the soul,
and that Aristotle saw individuals as bundles of properties.
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