The "Copernican revolution" of friendship - The wise man on friendship in the works of Aristotle

What effect has the absence of the necessity of friendship in wisdom on the status of friendship itself? (1177 b 1, 1159 a 5 12). The A. will not purs ue the adventure of friendship at the level of the wise man. What it is imp ortant to know, is to what extent the wise man can participate in the "game of friendship", as it unfolds as an activity in the ethical order. The que stion that is raised here is not the possibility of friendship for the wise man, but the possibility of having a wise man in the order of friendship, thus not the fact that the wise man does not need friends, but the fact tha t friendship does not need wise men. This "Copernican revolution" conserves , for the first time, the special character of friendship in it ethical cha racter.