Three kinds of friendship
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friendship of virtue, pleasure, and utility · three kinds of friendship
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Nicomachean Ethics
The threefold classification of friendship (virtue, pleasure, utility) referenced as previously established, now examined for equality and disparity between friends.
There are then, as we said at the outset, three kinds of friendship, and in each kind there are both friends who are on an equal footing and friends on a footing of disparity;
Stromata
Friendship classified according to virtue, mutual benefit, and pleasure or custom, paralleled by a Pythagorean threefold scheme of divine, human, and animal friendship.
"Of friendships, the one is from the knowledge of the gods, the one from the giving of men, the one from the pleasure of animals.
the second and middle is that according to return — and this is social and giving and useful for life, for common is the friendship from grace;