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- Marriage is for Aristotle an important kind of friendship. Between man and wife friendship seems to exist by nature; for man is naturally inclined to form couples—even more than to form cities, inasmuch as the household is earlier and more necessary than the city, and reproduction is more common to man with the animals.
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Jul 11, 2009 · Questions of the relation between love and marriage emerge from changing understandings of the role of marriage; in the early modern era, further fault lines appear as new understandings of human society conflict with the traditional structure of marriage. For Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, marriage was unproblematically structured by ...
the two forms of rule are distinct: in marriage, the husband always properly retains a position of superior authority, while in political rule hierarchies are typically temporary and always subject to the approval of the people ruled.
If they do not, then marital rule seems indistinct from paternal rule; if they do, then it seems indistinct from political rule. To add to the confusion, Aristotle says that husbands properly rule their wives politically, but without alternating in positions of ruling and being ruled. On its face, this idea seems flatly contradictory.
- David J. Riesbeck
- 2015
He wrote: “In matrimony there is a joining in respect of which we speak of husband and wife; and this joining, through being directed to some one thing [procreation], is matrimony; while the joining together of bodies and minds is a result of matrimony” (Summa Theologica, Q44).
Sep 10, 2021 · Aristotle married the niece (or by some accounts adoptive daughter) of King Hermias, Pythias, and the couple had a daughter together named after her mother (via Biography). According to Maths History, Pythias was around the age of 18 when they married, while Aristotle was around his 40s.
May 1, 2001 · I address this question by exploring Aristotle’s discussion of the friendship between husband and wife in the family, arguing that this relationship does not rise to the level of true friendship as Aristotle understands it.
