Friendship and We

While Aristotle's classification of Friendship as a topic in Ethics is rarely followed by his successors, its central feature is decisive in Kant's doctrine--the concept of treating another as 'another Self' is represented in the latter system as treating another as an 'End-in-itself'. Regardless, one of the shortcomings of Aristotle's concept is that treating another with such Respect does not suffice to account for other familiar aspects of Friendship--common interests, pursuits, and projects. So, more adequate to Friendship than a mere combination of an I and another I is We, the derivation of which in Aristotle's system may be as problematic as it is in Kant's.