Status:: #🌱 Tags:: Links:: <% tp.file.cursor(4) %> # Aristotle's three types of friends According to Aristotle in his Nichomachean Ethics there are three types of friendships: 1. Friendships of utility 2. Friendships of pleasure 3. Friendships of character Friendships of utility are friendships between people purely based on the utility of being together. For example, a business friendship where two people combine each other's skills to run a business, but aren't friends outside the endeavor. Friendships of pleasure are friendships based on the pleasure of being around the other person. For example, two people that love playing video games together but doing nothing else. Finally, we have friendships of character, which come from each person's mutual love for the other's character, values, goals, and actions.