This is a snippet from the third session of Laurie Johnson’s recent class “The Golden Mean: Introduction to Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics.” If you like this and you’re on Patreon, you’ve got access to the full recordings for this course. This segment is on human friendship and political friendship from Aristotle’s point of view. Aristotle’s discussion of various types of friendship leads to the conclusion that for people to be good community members they need first to be able to develop the best types of friendship, marked by shared virtue.
