On Loyalty and Loyalties: The Contours of a Problematic Virtue - Rilegato

Kleinig, John

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ISBN 10: 0199371253 ISBN 13: 9780199371259

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2014

Riassunto

Deep friendship may express profound loyalty, but so too may virulent nationalism. What can and should we say about this Janus-faced virtue of the will? This volume explores at length the contours of an important and troubling virtue ― its cognates, contrasts, and perversions; its strengths and weaknesses; its awkward relations with universal morality; its oppositional form and limits; as well as the ways in which it functions in various associative connections, such as friendship and familial relations, organizations and professions, nations, countries, and religious tradition.

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Recensione:

Clearly written and jargon-free for a general audience, this well-researched book is critically challenging, opening up opportunities for further important investigations in the future ... Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers. (Choice)

This is a thought-provoking work that deserves to be read by anyone interested in the philosophical import of associational ties. (Diane Jeske, Australasian Journal of Philosophy.)

L'autore:

John Kleinig is a philosopher who taught in Australia until 1986 ― working mostly on moral and social philosophy ― when he moved to John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York, where he taught mainly police ethics and social philosophy. Recently retired from CUNY, he remains as Strategic Research Professor and Professor of Policing Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Australia.

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199371253
• ISBN 13: 9780199371259
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336