Throughout Aristotle’s examination of friendship in Nicomachean Ethics, he refers to the friendship between a parent and a child in a number of different ways. Aristotle believes that there are three different kinds of friendship. One type is a friendship based on the use one friend has for anther. In this case, two people are friends because they give an advantage to the other or serve some useful purpose. An example of this would …showed first 75 words of 2155 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2155 total…are the friendships. Each does not get the same thing from the other, then, and must not seek it, but whenever children accord to their parents what they must accord to those who gave them birth, and parents accord what they must to their children, their friendship is enduring and decent (1158b, 18-22).” Although the friendship between parent and child is different from all other friendships it can be achieved with honesty, unselfishness, and goodness.