Topic > Essay on Kant's Friendship - 1330

In this friendship neither requires anything from the other. “This is not about any service or any question. Friendship is of a pure and genuine nature, and it is friendship in the absolute sense." This friendship has no limits or requirements, and individuals within the friendship can thrive and deem each other worthy of true friendship. “The point of particular importance is this. In social relationships and ordinary associations we do not enter completely into the social relationship. Most of our provision is withheld; there is no immediate expression of all our feelings, dispositions, and judgments. We only make judgments that seem appropriate under the circumstances. All of us are burdened by a constraint, a mistrust towards others, so we hide something, hiding our weaknesses to escape contempt, or even hiding our opinions" according to Kant. Although this friendship is the purest of all, Kant believes that we should try to open up and be authentic. Kant states that if we can release our bonds, that is, our fears, and give our heart wholeheartedly “we achieve complete communion. In order for this liberation to be achieved, each of us needs a friend, someone in whom we can confide without reservations, in whom we can completely reveal all our dispositions and judgments, to whom we cannot and must not hide anything, to whom we can communicate our whole self. ON