Friendship is very important in Aristotle’s moral and social philosophy. This because of the fact that becoming virtuous and living the good life depends on the kind of community one exists in and the sort of relationships one has with other people. Moreover, friendship is also basically good since it stands for a de

On the other hand, friendships based on goodness, last long because these friends keep themselves away from evil. Bad men on the other hand have no reliability in friendship, because they do not even stay true to their own characters; but they can be friends for a short time, while they enjoy each other with their evil ways. . It is surprising to me that Aristotle never mentions that the main factor in all friendships is the desire each friend has for the good of the other.

For example, Crito thinks he is trying to save Socrates, but doesn’t his lack of respect for the laws lead to the very instability which caused Meletus to bring Socrates to court and the jurors to vote against him? Socrates was accused of damaging the laws and institutions of Athens because he made all the authorities account for their actions. But here the roles are reversed: Socrates really respects the laws of Athens and Crito and other “respectable” citizens expect the laws to be ignored. So on the terms of friendship and Aristotle, they do not possess the same mind set and therefore cannot have a stable friendship. The whole story within Crito and Socrates has to do with Crito trying to persuade Socrates to flee and escape the prison. He says that people might think that he is cheap for not letting his own friend out and Socrates tells him that it does not matter what people think, it matters what is right. Through this I see a teacher telling a student throughout the whole story as if Socrates was a parent to Crito. Just as a child argues with his mother of why he cannot go somewhere and the mother tells him why it is wrong and what the problems are with his idea.

Towards the three types of friendships, the friendship that is based simply upon utility or pleasure last only so long as the people involved are useful to one another and give each other pleasure. Neither is really interested in the other for from the goodness of the heart, because their only purpose for being friends is for their own pleasure and resources. Though even these sorts of friendships are important, they are not of the best kinds of friendships. Besides being unstable and selfish, these kinds of friendships can exist even for awful people.

If I was considering today’s society, we may admire friends for their unique characteristics, not for Aristotle . If two friends have perfectly included themselves, their shared friendships would make them the same. And this seems to be the goal of a true friendship. They both cared for each other in a different way. Socrates cares for him and tries to reason with him, explains to him why his reasons for escaping are not just and Crito, out of his care, just wanted him to live on and keep doing what he use to do, even if it meant he had to flee. Some of his persuasions though, I thought were not right either, such as of the ones of the people of Athens, and what they would think of him. Even Crito has nothing to say after Socrates argument. In the same time, the way that Crito listens and takes Socrates seriously and respects him as if he is truly a teacher of the good and virtuous, he also seems to me that he is learning

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