Friendship for Virtue

This book explores the virtue of friendship in moral philosophy, psychology, and education, integrating Aristotelian theory with social scientific research and offering a more detailed account of why even the best friendships can dissolve.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press

This book, through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, offers a profound illumination of our understanding of friendship in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. Friendship for Virtue pursues four primary objectives. The first is to accord the virtue of friendship the rightful prominence it deserves within contemporary virtue ethics, inspired by Aristotle's teachings. The second aim is to harmonize Aristotelian theory with recent social scientific research on friendship, engaging in mutual adjustments to enhance our understanding. The third objective is to reclaim Aristotelian friendship as a moral educational concept, emphasizing its role in fostering virtue development. The fourth objective is to provide a more comprehensive and realistic account than Aristotle did of the potential staleness and dissolution of even the finest friendships, as well as the fragility of the human relationships they represent, particularly in situations where erotic love and friendship collide.

Weight: 524g
Dimension: 163 x 242 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780192864260