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The Complete Aristotle (eng.)

The Complete Aristotle (eng.)

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Autoren: Aristotle
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crisis; provided it was for our own sake. And also to those who we
think wish to treat us well. And also to our friends’ friends, and
to those who like, or are liked by, those whom we like ourselves.
And also to those who are enemies to those whose enemies we are,
and dislike, or are disliked by, those whom we dislike. For all
such persons think the things good which we think good, so that
they wish what is good for us; and this, as we saw, is what friends
must do. And also to those who are willing to treat us well where
money or our personal safety is concerned: and therefore we value
those who are liberal, brave, or just. The just we consider to be
those who do not live on others; which means those who work for
their living, especially farmers and others who work with their own
hands. We also like temperate men, because they are not unjust to
others; and, for the same reason, those who mind their own
business. And also those whose friends we wish to be, if it is
plain that they wish to be our friends: such are the morally good,
and those well thought of by every one, by the best men, or by
those whom we admire or who admire us. And also those with whom it
is pleasant to live and spend our days: such are the good-tempered,
and those who are not too ready to show us our mistakes, and those
who are not cantankerous or quarrelsome-such people are always
wanting to fight us, and those who fight us we feel wish for the
opposite of what we wish for ourselves-and those who have the tact
to make and take a joke; here both parties have the same object in
view, when they can stand being made fun of as well as do it
prettily themselves. And we also feel friendly towards those who
praise such good qualities as we possess, and especially if they
praise the good qualities that we are not too sure we do possess.
And towards those who are cleanly in their person, their dress, and
all their way of life. And towards those who do not reproach us
with what we have done amiss to them or they have done to help us,
for both actions show a tendency to criticize us. And towards those
who do not nurse grudges or store up grievances, but are always
ready to make friends again; for we take it that they will behave
to us just as we find them behaving to every one else. And towards
those who are not evil speakers and who are aware of neither their
neighbours’ bad points nor our own, but of our good ones only, as a
good man always will be. And towards those who do not try to thwart
us when we are angry or in earnest, which would mean being ready to
fight us. And towards those who have some serious feeling towards
us, such as admiration for us, or belief in our goodness, or
pleasure in our company; especially if they feel like this about
qualities in us for which we especially wish to be admired,
esteemed, or liked. And towards those who are like ourselves in
character and occupation, provided they do not get in our way or
gain their living from the same source as we do-for then it will be
a case of ‘potter against potter’:
Potter to potter and builder to builder begrudge their
reward.
    And those who desire the same things as we desire, if it is
possible for us both to share them together; otherwise the same
trouble arises here too. And towards those with whom we are on such
terms that, while we respect their opinions, we need not blush
before them for doing what is conventionally wrong: as well as
towards those before whom we should be ashamed to do anything
really wrong. Again, our rivals, and those whom we should like to
envy us—though without ill-feeling—either we like these people or
at least we wish them to like us. And we feel friendly towards
those whom we help to secure good for themselves, provided we are
not likely to suffer heavily by it ourselves. And those who feel as
friendly to us when we are not with them as when we are-which is
why all men feel friendly towards those who are faithful to their
dead friends. And, speaking generally, towards those who are really
fond of their friends and do not desert them in trouble; of all
good men, we feel most friendly to those who show their goodness as
friends. Also towards those who are honest with us, including those
who will tell us of their own weak points: it has just said that
with our friends we are not ashamed of what is conventionally
wrong, and if we do have this feeling, we do not love them; if
therefore we do not have it, it looks as if we did love them.

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