Book I

Abstract

¹ In such a friendship, what is given and what is received are not the same in kind but different or analogous; and the desire by both parties to make the exchange may lead to an equality, in a sense, which preserves the friendship. As already stated, ‘friendship’ here is used in a wide sense; two men enter into a friendship if each receives some good from the other. Thus a political friendship is an association between citizens who exchange goods, such as shoes for dresses. 1158b23-8, 1162a34-b4, 1163bl-12.