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Throughout Aristotle's examination of friendship in Nicomachean Ethics, he refers to the friendship between a parent and a child in a number of different ways. Aristotle believes that there are three different kinds of friendship. One type is a friendship based on the use one friend has for anther.

In this case, two people are friends because they give an advantage to the other or serve some useful purpose. An example of this would be a person who is friends with someone because he is popular or has a lot of money. Another type of friendship is based on pleasure. This kind occurs when two people are friends because of the pleasure they bring to each other. As soon as the friendship brings less pleasure to one of them, the friendship will dissolve. The last type of friendship is based on the goodness of the two people. It forms when one decent person loves another decent person. This is the only lasting and true form of friendship. A good friendship can come from a friendship that starts out as pleasing or useful. All friendships require time to develop and grow, but only good friendships will endure over time.

Early in Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle points out the difference between love and friendship. He uses the same three c

ategories for describing what is lovable as he used for friendship: good, pleasant and useful. There are some differences though. While it is possible to love something that has no soul, it is impossible to form a friendship with something that has no soul. Love can be for anything, while friendship is restricted to only those things that have a mind and soul. A defining characteristic of friendship is its reciprocality. After further examination Aristotle goes on to say, "Loving would seem to be a feeling, but friendship a state," and, "...reciprocal loving requires decision, and decision comes from a state; and what makes [good people] wish good to the beloved for his own sake is their state, not their feeling (1157b, 29-33)." The feeling of love can come quickly and go quickly, and it alone is not enough to establish a friendship in which one person wishes good for the other person's sake. Friendship is a conscious choice and requires unselfishness on each persons' part in order to be truly successful.

According to Aristotle, "...a parent is fond of his children because he regards them as something of himself; and children are fond a parent becasue they regard themselves as coming from him(1161b, 17-19)."

As a child, I remember comparing my mother to other mothers, believing that mine was too strict.

On August eighteenth of the year two thousand, my parents, Don and Jean, drove me to the University of Notre Dame, my new home for the next four years. When they hugged me and said good-bye I felt a lump form in my throat. "Daddy, please don't cry," I said, feeling the much dreaded tears I was holding back as they welled up in my eyes. They walked to the car and I waited for my father to turn around and do our special wave good-bye. Every morning for as long as I can remember I have waved good-bye to my father. It is a silly wave, derived somewhat from the oldies song, "Hand-Jive." I have always wondered what the neighbors thought of my father pulling away every morning with his car window down, enthusiastically waving his hands around in the direction of my house. I'm sure my father did not care one bit what they were thinking as they retrieved their newspapers in the morning. I've learned time and again that my parents' love for their children is great enough for them to sacrifice anything.

She always said to me, "Kate, I would love to be your friend, but that's not my number one goal. My goal.is to keep you safe and do what is best for you." Now that I am older, I understand this and I am thankful for her wisdom. It is her constant desire to do what is best for me that makes her my friend today. There is a children's book called I Love You Forever. My mother loves this book and cries every time she reads it. It is about a mother who rocks her newborn son, singing, "I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be." It goes on to show the mother singing this lullaby to her sleeping son as a young boy, a teenager, a young man, and a father himself. At the end of the book, the mother is old and weak. Her son comes to her bedside, rocks her, and sings, "I love you forever. I like you for alway

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