To begin with, Aristotle used the word of self-love as being a friend to one’s self. He gave a positive and negative argument for self-love. On the positive end, Aristotle says that people with self-love are ruled by their highest part of the soul, which includes their mind, and their logos. Self-loved people are most concerned with nourishing their psyche or rational part of themselves. He is a good man that concerns himself for the sake of others. This person also strives and wishes for what are the noblest and the best and “gratifies the most authoritative element in himself and in all things obeys this” (Aristotle 236). He does so by using his reason, which allows him to recognize and distinguish what is good. They obviously aren’t selfish at all and don’t seem to seek

In closing, Aristotle and Kant had differences and similarities in their ideas of friendship. Aristotle gave us four characteristics of his idea of being a true friend. He said that a true friend wishes and does what is good for the sake of the friend. He also wishes and does well for the friend’s existence. A true friend enjoys spending time with his friend and shares things like his pleasures, emotional triumphs and losses and even their pains. For both philosophers the ideal of friendship is based on reciprocity. With reciprocity there is an equal exchange with the love of the self and the love of others without a loss. Like Aristotle, Kant believed that ideal friendship is not learned through experience, but through one’s reason. He said that the ultimate ideal of friendship is complete sacrifice for each other. Kant said in his book, “When, therefore, Socrates remarks, ‘My dear friends, there are no friends’...he is right; for any such absolute conformity is impossible; but the Idea is true” (Kant 202).

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