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ABSTRACT
Friendship is like a rolling stone that carries a lot of dust, carries to itself many negative connotations. The purpose of this work is to discuss how modern day people understand friendship using Aristotle’s conception of friendship as a paradigm. This work will investigate why people make friends. In the same vein, it has as its purpose to find out whether friendship is intrinsically good or bad. The method applied in this research is mainly expository. It is expository because it shows in great detail what friendship was in the olden days. Also it exposes what is obtainable now as friendship with its benefits, problems and possible solutions. This research work will be explaining the various attributes of Aristotle’s conception of friendship, overview of some philosophers’ view on friendship, treats both the Aristotelian and modern day conception and the importance of friendship. Finally, mistakes are bound to be made and then corrected; that is why pencils are made with eraser. In the light of this, it is true that friendship in the modern day has a lot of shortcomings, but there is still hope. If the modern people would follow the guideline set down by Aristotle, they stand the chance of enjoying a better life tomorrow.
