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9780791486870

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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

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780791486870

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

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

Published by S U N Y P TATE NIVERSITY OF EW ORK RESS ALBANY

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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.

BJ1533.F8 G785 2003 177'.62—dc21 2002075883

In memory of

Andrew Grunebaum

1945–1987

Brother—Friend

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFERENCE FORFRIENDS

THESTRUCTURE OFFRIENDSHIP

INTERNALJUSTIFICATIONS

EXTERNALJUSTIFICATIONS

CONCLUSIONS: FRIENDSHIPS ANDPREFERENCES

NOTES

SELECTEDBIBLIOGRAPHY

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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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