Book chapter
Loyalty and the Selves We Are as Friends
The Virtue of Loyalty, pp.42-67
Oxford University Press
2024
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197612644.003.0003
Abstract
This chapter argues that disloyalty to a friend constitutes a loss for both friends that differs in kind from that involved in other kinds of disloyalty, such as disloyalty to one’s country. The intimacy constitutive of friendship creates a space in which the friends can be their ‘authentic’ selves together. Within a friendship, we are specific selves that we are only able to be within the private space of that relationship, selves that play a crucial role in the narratives of our lives. Disloyalty, then, poses a threat to the private space of the friendship, and, thus, to the self that is party to that friendship. Although disloyalty to a friend can be more costly than disloyalty to one’s country, the cost to the self of the betrayal of a friend does not in itself settle how one ought to act in such cases of conflict.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Loyalty and the Selves We Are as Friends
- Creators
- Diane Jeske
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Virtue of Loyalty, pp.42-67
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York
- DOI
- 10.1093/oso/9780197612644.003.0003
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984560419602771
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