Loyalty to Loyalty : Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life / Mathew A. Foust.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foust, Mathew A., Author.

Series:

American Philosophy

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In 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 Royce’s moral theory, revealing how loyalty, rather than being just one virtue among others, is central to living a genuinely moral and meaningful life. Mathew A. Foust shows how the theory of loyalty Royce advances can be brought to bear on issues such as the partiality/impartiality debate in ethical theory, the role of loyalty in liberatory struggle, and the ethics of whistleblowing and disaster response.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. The Treachery and Ambivalence of Loyalty

One. Loyalty, Justice, Virtue

Two. The Nature of Loyalty

Three. Loyalty to Loyalty

Four. Learning Loyalty

Five. Loyalty and Community

Six. Disloyalty

Seven. Loyalty, Disaster, Business: Contemporary Applications

Conclusion: The Need for Loyalty

Notes

Bibliography

Index

American Philosophy

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9211-8

OCLC:

1350688024