Friendship

James O. Grunebaum

Description

In Friendship, James O. Grunebaum introduces a new conceptual framework to articulate, explain, and understand similarities and differences between various conceptions of friendship. Asking whether special preference for friends is morally justified, Grunebaum answers that question by analyzing a comprehensive comparison of not only Aristotle's three well-known kinds of friendship—pleasure, utility, and virtue—but also a variety of lesser-known friendship conceptions from Kant, C. S. Lewis, and Montaigne. The book clarifies differences about how friends ought to behave toward each other and how these differences are, in part, what separate the various conceptions of friendship.

Acknowledgments

1. Preference for Friends

2. The Structure of Friendship

3. Internal Justifications

4. External Justifications

5. Conclusions: Friendships and Preferences

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Éthique et morale
• Ethique et morale

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791486870
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Friendship

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F R I E N D S H I P

Liberty, Equality, and Utility

James O. Grunebaum

S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K P R E S S

Cover: Small Islands Lawrence C.Goldsmith Watercolor, 18 inches x 24 inches

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Grunebaum, James O. Friendship : liberty, equality, and utility / James O. Grunebaum. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5717-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5718-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Friendship—Moral and ethical aspects. I. Title.

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In memory of

Andrew Grunebaum

1945–1987

Brother—Friend

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Portions of this book, in a different form, have been published as “Friendship, Morality, and Special Obligation,”American Philosophical Quarterly30, no. 1 (1993); “On Becoming Friends,”Cithara38, no. 1 (1998); and “What Is So Good about Friendship?” inInherent and Instrumental Value, edited by John Abbarno, University Press of America, 2002. I would like to thank them for permission to use it here. I am indebted to Buffalo State College, State University of New York, for a sabbatical leave in 1999 and for its subsequent support of my research that permitted me to bring my thoughts on friendship into final form. Special thanks to Lawrence C .Goldsmith for the use of his wonderful paintingSmall Islandson the cover. There are many friendly people who have been generous in reading and commenting on earlier versions of this manuscript, including Cynthia An- thony, John Carbonara, Robert Elmes, George Hole, and Lance Pollock. I thank them for their efforts, and I trust that they will absolve me of my own errors. I thank my wife, Penelope Prentice, for her editorial attempts at mak- ing my writing readable, but more importantly, I express my endless gratitude to her for our lifelong intimacy and companion friendship.

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