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Loyalty to loyalty : Josiah Royce and the genuine moral life / Mathew A. Foust.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foust, Mathew A.
- Series:
- American philosophy.
- American philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916.
- Royce, Josiah.
- Loyalty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As a virtue, loyalty has an ambiguous place in our thinking about moral judgments. We lauded the loyalty of firefighters who risked their lives to save others on 9/11 while condemning the loyalty of those who perpetrated the catastrophe. Responding to such uneasiness and confusion, Loyalty to Loyalty contributes to ongoing conversation about how we should respond to conflicts in loyalty in a pluralistic world. The lone philosopher to base an ethical theory on the virtue of loyalty is Josiah Royce. Loyalty to Loyalty engages RoyceGs moral theory, revealing how loyalty, rather than being just on
- Contents:
- Introduction : the treachery and ambivalence of loyalty
- Loyalty, justice, virtue : contemporary debates
- The nature of loyalty
- Loyalty to loyalty
- Learning loyalty
- Loyalty and community
- Disloyalty
- Loyalty, disaster, business : contemporary applications
- Conclusion : the need for loyalty.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823242726
- 0823242722
- 9780823242733
- 0823242730
- 9780823246649
- 0823246647
- OCLC:
- 923763743
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb31322 hdl
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