2019
DOI: 10.1017/s0031819119000433
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Filtering Friendship throughPhronesis: ‘One Thought too Many’?

Abstract: An adequate moral theory must – or so many philosophers have argued – be compatible with the attitudes and practical requirements of deep friendship. Bernard Williams suggested that the decision procedure required by both deontology and consequentialism inserts a fetishising filter between the natural moral motivation of any normal person to prioritise friends and the decision to act on it. But this injects ‘one thought too many’ into the moral reaction mechanism. It is standardly assumed that virtue ethics is… Show more

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“…We refer to CF in a psychological investigation (Kristjánsson 2020a, 2020b) because it converges with deep friendship. The latter involves actions that are of an ethical nature (e.g.…”
Section: Friendship Character Friendship and Psychologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We refer to CF in a psychological investigation (Kristjánsson 2020a, 2020b) because it converges with deep friendship. The latter involves actions that are of an ethical nature (e.g.…”
Section: Friendship Character Friendship and Psychologymentioning
confidence: 99%