Friendship Read the following information about friendship. Using the information presented, your own experience, observations, and/or readings, write an article for your school newspaper about the meaning of friendship. As you write your speech, remember to: Focus on the definition of friendship. Consider the purpose, audience, and context of your article. Organize your ideas and details effectively. Include specific details that clearly develop your article. Edit your speech for standard
the “silent era” of friendships via social media accounts has created a totally new definition of friendship and what defines a set of people as friends. Those who are involved in traditional friendships, such as people over the age of 50, find that it has also become quite difficult for them to remain in touch with their friends on a real time level. However, these people do not have the time to spend nor the inclination to learn about the “benefits” of digitized friendships. As such the more advanced
dynamic of cross-sex friendships is an interesting area of study and one of which has little data. Moreover, research on this narrow subject is rather limited and comes from fairly old studies. The idea that men and women cannot be ‘just friends,’ is due to the idea that there must be some aspect of physical and or romantic involved. As Reeder discussed traditional societal norms and expectations of male-female relationships have played a role in how we view cross-sex friendships today. The literature
Aristotle on Friendship We are social creatures. We surround ourselves with other human beings, our friends. It is in our nature. We are constantly trying to broaden the circumference of our circle of friends. Aristotle understood the importance of friendship, books VIII and IX of the Nicomachean Ethics deal solely with this topic. A modern day definition of a friend can be defined as “one joined to another in intimacy and mutual benevolence independently of sexual or family love”. (Oxford
motivations for friendship: usefulness, pleasure and good. He postulates that when people seek friendship, they look for someone who is worthy of their affection based on one of those three motives. Whether his argument is true is debatable. Many might object to this simplification of such a complex topic. However, his theory holds weight within the context of Book VIII. Friendships based on two people’s usefulness to each other are considered by Aristotle to be the lowest form of friendship (Aristotle
The film Boogie Nights provides an interesting case study of the unique nature of human relationships, specifically love and friendship. It presents a crisscrossing mash-up of various combinations of traditional love categories: friendly (plutonic or nonsexual) love, family love, lust, master/servant or apprentice/teacher love, etc. Besides being entertaining, Boogie Nights presents these combinations to provoke an insight on our part into the nature of love. This insight is exemplified in Jack’s
Friendship, as defined here, is a general term that means a mutual fondness for the sake of both parties. The moral attributes of both individuals are significant in a friendship. According to Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics, “it is of these attributes that we were the friends”. What happens when these attributes change morally, though? Moral changes are when people alter the way they reason through decisions and how much they consider others while doing so. Is it ethical to abandon a genuine friendship
to achieve eudaimonia. Another necessity Aristotle holds for eudaimonia is friendship. In the following essay I will argue that the value Aristotle places on friendship, within the good life, does not conflict with his contention that happiness is a stable good; in fact, friendship is imperative in demonstrating and maintaining the stability of virtue, a consistency that gives happiness its enduring quality. True friendship, according to Aristotle, is an external reflection of an individual’s internal
A ‘virtual community’ is a type of imagined community and is a difficult concept to define; the ambiguous nature of this concept is highlighted by the many definitions created by researchers. A Virtual Community is when “Individuals communicate and form a relationship with each other in a computer mediated space with the use of technology". Anthropologists undergo the practice of participation observation on the internet , allowing them to experience a virtual community; this shapes their understanding
Friendship and its Effects on the Human Person: Friendship is something that everyone has experienced to some extent and is important to our development of a wholesome person. Being able to relate to another person and react accordingly strengthens our emotional intelligence and makes us a more well-rounded individual. This is an extremely important topic to me as a college student because I need to know how to handle different kinds of relationships as I meet and work with new people. In Aristotle’s