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- A Philosopher Looks at Friendship
- A Philosopher Looks at
- A Philosopher Looks at Friendship
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude: Eighteen Aphorisms
- 1 Three Friendships – and Lots of Questions
- 2 Philosophers of Friendship: An Apology
- 3 Why I Don’t Start with a Formal Definition of Friendship
- 4 Examples of Friendship
- 5 Beginning the Natural History of Friendship
- 6 Deepening the Natural Historical Account
- 7 Being with Others
- 8 Lewis’s Four Loves – and Nygren’s Two
- 9 Aristotle’s Three Kinds of Philia – and Aristotle’s Will
- 10 Friendship, Love, and Second-Personality
- 11 Friendship as an Unemphatic Good
- 12 Bertrand Russell and His Over-Emphatic ‘German’ Friend
- 13 Sensitivity to Tacit Knowledge
- 14 Innocence
- 15 Moralism
- 16 Roles and Spontaneity
- 17 The Benefits of Friendship
- 18 Eighteen Quick Questions and Eighteen Quick Answers
- References
- Index
15 - Moralism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2024
- A Philosopher Looks at Friendship
- A Philosopher Looks at
- A Philosopher Looks at Friendship
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude: Eighteen Aphorisms
- 1 Three Friendships – and Lots of Questions
- 2 Philosophers of Friendship: An Apology
- 3 Why I Don’t Start with a Formal Definition of Friendship
- 4 Examples of Friendship
- 5 Beginning the Natural History of Friendship
- 6 Deepening the Natural Historical Account
- 7 Being with Others
- 8 Lewis’s Four Loves – and Nygren’s Two
- 9 Aristotle’s Three Kinds of Philia – and Aristotle’s Will
- 10 Friendship, Love, and Second-Personality
- 11 Friendship as an Unemphatic Good
- 12 Bertrand Russell and His Over-Emphatic ‘German’ Friend
- 13 Sensitivity to Tacit Knowledge
- 14 Innocence
- 15 Moralism
- 16 Roles and Spontaneity
- 17 The Benefits of Friendship
- 18 Eighteen Quick Questions and Eighteen Quick Answers
- References
- Index
Summary
We have seen that it is characteristic of a certain very popular style of contemporary moral philosophy to hold that there are no questions at all that philosophy should not ask. Those who take this line tend to see their stance as one of heroically bold and open-minded free thought. They apparently regard the contrary idea, which I have been defending by describing the virtue of innocence, as timid, no-debate obscurantism.
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- A Philosopher Looks at Friendship , pp. 152 - 157Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024