Research On Aristotle’s Thoughts About Virtuous Friendship

This research is mainly focusing on Virtuous Friendship created by Aristotle, which isinherited and developed from the theories of Fore-Socrates philosophers, Socrates and Plato.Virtuous Friendship primarily pursues virtue to achieve the spirit of true friendship. Thepremises of virtuous friendship are: good person as object, kindness as beginning, intimacy asfoundation. The essences are the nature of nature; the nature of love; the nature of self-respect;as well as the nature of happiness. The evaluation of the Virtue fraternity including restrictedby the limitations of the times, to break the limitations of the elite, breaking the self-interestand altruism confined to three areas. The prominent effect of virtuous friendship onharmonious inter-relationship, society and the world. As for the inter-relationship, virtuousfriendship helps to understand and respect each other and build up intimacy. As far as thesociety, It helps to create stable society, improve moral standard and promote justice. When Itcomes to the world, virtuous friendship lessens the conflicts between countries and peoples inthe international communication and makes contribution to the peace and development of theworld.