One Hundred Years of Homosexuality by Halperin David M M

Author:Halperin, David M M [Halperin, David M M]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781136608773
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-02-10T19:05:08+00:00

[In the case of friendships based on pleasure and utility,] the friendships are most enduring when they [the two friends] get the same thing—e.g. pleasure— from each other, and, moreover, get it from the same source, as witty people do. They must not be like the erotic lover and the boy he loves. For these do not take pleasure in the same things; the lover takes pleasure in seeing [gazing at] his beloved, while the beloved takes pleasure in being courted [or served] by his lover. When the beloved's bloom is fading, sometimes the friendship fades too; for the lover no longer finds pleasure in seeing his beloved, while the beloved is no longer courted by the lover. Many, however, remain friends if they have similar characters and come to be fond of each other's characters from being accustomed to them…. [In the category of friendships between contraries] we might also include the erotic lover and his beloved, and the beautiful and the ugly. Hence an erotic lover also sometimes appears ridiculous, when he expects to be loved in the same way as he loves; that would presumably be a proper expectation if he were lovable in the same way, but it is ridiculous when he is not (Nicomachean Ethics 8.1157a3–14, 1159b 11–19, trans. Irwin, with my amplifications).

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