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According to Kristján Kristjánsson, Friendship for Virtue aims to retrieve for contemporary Aristotelian virtue ethics the major importance that the virtue of friendship plays in Aristotle's own texts, and to do so in a way that highlights friendship as, in essence, characterologically educational (ix). This book succeeds at this aim and does so with clarity. Moreover, Kristjánsson does sufficient justice to the relevant history and in a way that should prove fascinating to historians of philosophy. Chapter 1 provides background. Much of the conceptual and historical discussion of friendship will be familiar to those who have followed the literature. Perhaps less familiar will be the discussion of contemporary psychology, which Kristjánsson suggests generally avoids normativity and, related to this, has two features that Kristjánsson rejects: instrumentalism (31) and less focus on the characterological aspects of friendship (37). "Instrumentalism" takes the ultimate grounds of human pursuits to be one's own wellbeing, often subjectively construed. Apart from this last qualification, this instrumentalism seems similar to the "rational egoist" interpretation of Aristotle, whereby "on
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- Author
- Bradford Jean-Hyuk Kim
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)