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    True friendship requires equality among the parties invol... — Carmelics
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    True friendship requires equality among the parties involved.

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    • 1.Friendship must be a relationship among equals.
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    • 2.Philosophers since Aristotle have broadly agreed that some form of equality is a prerequisite of friendship.
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    • 1.Aristotle himself distinguishes friendships of utility, pleasure, and virtue, with virtue-friendship requiring similarity of character, not strict equality of status.
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    • 2.Similarity of character and mutual recognition of excellence can ground genuine friendship even between persons of unequal social standing or capability.
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    • 3.Reducing Aristotle's nuanced account to a simple equality requirement misreads his criterion as socioeconomic parity rather than reciprocal goodwill and shared virtue.
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    • 1.Nel Noddings and care ethics theorists argue that the most morally significant relationships, including deep friendship, are structured by asymmetric care and responsiveness to need.
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    • 2.If asymmetric care relationships can constitute genuine moral bonds with all the hallmarks of friendship—loyalty, affection, mutual concern—then equality is not a necessary condition.
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    • 3.The care ethics tradition represents a sustained, empirically-grounded philosophical challenge to equality-based accounts of friendship rooted in feminist and disability scholarship.
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    Philosophers have often treated equality of some kind as a prerequisite of friendship (see SEP entry on friendship). In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle distinguished among three kinds of friendship: friendships of pleasure, of utility, and of virtue. The last, the highest or truest form, required similarity of character. Philosophers since Aristotle have rejected some of his prerequisites for friendship, such as equality of social or economic status, but they have shared his view that friend
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