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11 - Friendship as an Unemphatic Good

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2024

Sophie Grace Chappell
Sophie Grace Chappell
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The Open University, Milton Keynes
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I have been saying things about the philosophy of love at least some of which it wouldn’t really do to say about the philosophy of friendship – even though some of them are true. Why wouldn’t it do? Well, we come back here to a problem that I noted in the literature of the philosophy of friendship as far back as Chapter 2: as I called it there, po-facedness.

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A Philosopher Looks at Friendship , pp. 120 - 131
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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