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Friendship for Virtue

English · Hardback

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This book gives the virtue of friendship the prominence it deserves in contemporary virtue ethics. It offers a more realistic version of Aristotelian theory and integrates it with social scientific research on friendship. And it argues for the importance of friendship in moral education, as a path to to the development of virtue.

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  • Preface

  • 1: Setting the Scene: Friendship from Aristotle to Contemporary Psychology

  • 2: Fragile Friendships: Instabilities and Terminations

  • 3: Friendship with a Filter: The Role of Phronesis

  • 4: Grounding Friendships: Reconciling the Moralised and Aestheticised Views

  • 5: How Friendship Cultivates Virtue: Retrieving Friendship as a Moral Educational Concept

  • 6: Friendships for Utility: Their Moral Value and an Online Example

  • 7: Online Character Friendships: The Example of Epalships

  • 8: Concluding Remarks: Some Retrospective Reflections on Friendships



About the author

Professor Kristján Kristjánsson is Deputy Director in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues and Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics, University of Birmingham. His interests lie in research on character and virtues at the intersection between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. He has published nine books on those issues, the latest one is Flourishing as the Aim of Education (2020). His previous books include Aristotelian Character Education (2015), which won the SES Prize for the best Education book of 2015, and Virtuous Emotions (2018). Kristjánsson is Editor of the Journal of Moral Education.

Summary

This book gives the virtue of friendship the prominence it deserves in contemporary virtue ethics. It offers a more realistic version of Aristotelian theory and integrates it with social scientific research on friendship. And it argues for the importance of friendship in moral education, as a path to to the development of virtue.

Additional text

Kristjánsson's book represents a rigorous, thoughtful, and needed philosophical engagement with the experience of friendship - a near universal part of human existence,... In this sense, Friendship for Virtue helps to fill a real lacuna.

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