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    It is desirable to have a close friend whose virtuous act... — Carmelics
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    It is desirable to have a close friend whose virtuous activity one can perceive.

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    • 1.A virtuous person loves the recognition of himself as virtuous.
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    • 2.A friend is 'another self' — someone with whom one has a relationship very similar to the relationship one has with oneself.
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    • 3.To have a close friend is to possess another person, besides oneself, whose virtue one can recognize at extremely close quarters.
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    • 1.Kant argues that treating a person as a means to one's own moral self-perception violates the Formula of Humanity.
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    • 2.If one desires a friend primarily to perceive virtue reflected back, the friend's independent rational agency is instrumentalized.
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    • 3.A relationship structured around self-recognition cannot be genuine friendship but a form of narcissistic self-regard.
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    • 1.Stoic self-sufficiency holds that the sage's eudaimonia depends solely on internal virtue, not external goods including friendship.
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    • 2.If virtuous activity is genuinely complete in itself, the external perception of another's virtue adds nothing to one's flourishing.
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    • 3.Aristotle's own claim that virtue is choiceworthy for its own sake is undermined if its full value requires an observing friend.
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    Aristotle attempts to answer this question in IX.11, but his treatment is disappointing. His fullest argument depends crucially on the notion that a friend is “another self”, someone, in other words, with whom one has a relationship very similar to the relationship one has with oneself. A virtuous person loves the recognition of himself as virtuous; to have a close friend is to possess yet another person, besides oneself, whose virtue one can recognize at extremely close quarters; and so, it mus
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