On Loyalty and Loyalties

The Contours of a Problematic Virtue

John Kleinig author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:19th Jun '14

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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.

John Kleinig's book is a thoughtful and thorough examination of loyalty and its ethical significance. It presents an original account of loyalty's place among the virtues and insightful discussions of several difficult questions on which considerations of loyalty bear, ranging across professional and applied ethics and social and political philosophy. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
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. *

ISBN: 9780199371266

Dimensions: 155mm x 231mm x 23mm

Weight: 431g

326 pages