Friends Are Other Selves

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ID23690743
AutoresBennett W Helm (0009-0003-1433-2823, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Páginas255-301
Fecha de publicación2010-01-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaLove, friendship, and the self (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567898.003.0008
OpenAlexW2486114536
ISBN9780199567898
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas51

This chapter offers a positive account of friendship in which at least certain kinds of friends are understood to be ‘other selves’, such that they, to a certain extent, share a capacity for autonomy. Section 8.1 examines a variety of alternative accounts of friendship and, in particular, their understanding of the kind of intimacy characteristic of friendship. The tentative, suggestive conclusion is that the intimacy of friendship crucially involves the friends being uniquely able to shape each other's thoughts, feelings, and lives, at least within particular domains defined within their friendship. They do this by ‘sharing’, in a stronger sense than that required by reciprocal love, not only their evaluative perspectives but also their activity and so their lives (within that domain). To start to make sense of such ‘sharing’, Section 2 examines standard accounts of shared activity, arguing that these accounts fail to do justice to the kind of shared activity characteristic of friendship. Section 8.3 provides an alternative account of this sort of shared activity, which gets expanded, in Section 8.4, into a general account of friendship.

Autonomy · Feeling · Friendship · Political science · Reciprocal · Section (typography) · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil

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