@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5vm5c4.7, ISBN = {9780300175356}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vm5c4.7}, abstract = {The wordphiliais made to do express duty for the sentiment of friendship in Plato’sLysis, but it also – as noted in passing in the Introduction – meant much more, embracing family ties and even socio-political ones. Plato’s usage seems to have secured it to friendship for the philosophical debate, however, for in the eighth and ninth books of theNicomachean Ethicsit isphilia– and along with it an identification of the qualities that attract people into friendship with each other, ‘lovables’ orphileta– which is used to denote the sentiment of friendship. But in}, bookauthor = {A. C. GRAYLING}, booktitle = {Friendship}, pages = {31--41}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, title = {The Classic Statement: Aristotle}, year = {2013} }