Friendship : : A Philosophical Reader / / ed. by Neera Kapur Badhwar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Robert M.,; Annas, Julia,; Baron, Marcia,; Blum, Lawrence,; Branden, Nathaniel,; Cooper, John M.,; Friedman, Marilyn,; Kapur Badhwar, Neera,; Lewis, C. S.,; Lyndon Shanley, Mary,; Paton, H. J.,; Railton, Peter,; Rorty, Amélie O.,; Sherman, Nancy,; Stocker, Michael,; Thomas, Laurence,
• HerausgeberIn: Badhwar, Neera Kapur,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [1993]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

Recent years have seen a marked revival of interest among philosophers in the topic of friendship. This collection of fifteen articles is the first to make some of the best recent work on friendship readily accessible.The book is divided into three sections. The first centers on the nature of friendship, the difference between friendship and other personal loves, and the importance of friendship in the individual's life. The second section discusses the moral significance of friendship and the response of various ethical theories and theorists (Aristotelian, Christian, Kantian, and consequentialist) to the phenomenon of friendship. The last section deals with the importance of personal and civic friendship in a good society. Badhwar's introduction is a comprehensive critical discussion of the issues raised by the essays: it relates them to each other, as well as to historical and contemporary discussions not included in the anthology, thus providing the reader with an integrated overview of the essays and their place in the larger philosophical picture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: The Nature and Significance of Friendship -- PART I. FRIENDSHIP: GENERAL DISCUSSIONS -- 1. Friendship-The Least Necessary Love -- 2. Friendship and Other Loves -- 3. Love and Psychological Visibility -- 4. The Historicity of Psychological Attitudes: Love Is Not Love Which Alters Not When It Alteration Finds -- PART II. FRIENDSHIP AND ETHICS -- 5. Aristotle on the Shared Life -- 6. The Problem of Total Devotion -- 7. Kant on Friendship -- 8. Personal Love and Kantian Ethics in Effi Briest -- 9. Was Effi Briest a Victim of Kantian Morality? -- 10. Friendship as a Moral Phenomenon -- 11. Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality -- 12. Values and Purposes: The Limits of Teleology and the Ends of Friendship -- PART III. FRIENDSHIP, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS -- 13. Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women -- 14. Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community -- 15. Political Animals and Civic Friendship -- Index