A Philosopher Looks at Friendship by Sophie Grace Chappell Paperback Book

Description: A Philosopher Looks at Friendship by Sophie Grace Chappell While for centuries friendship has fascinated and puzzled philosophers, they havent always been able to fit it into their theories. The author explores friendship as something hard to deal with in the neat and tidy ways of philosophical theory — but nevertheless as one of the central goods of human experience. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What is it to be a friend? What does the role of friend involve, and why? How do the obligations and prerogatives associated with that role follow on from it, and how might they mesh, or clash, with our other duties and privileges? Philosophy often treats friendship as something systematic, serious, and earnest, and much philosophical thought has gone into how friendship can formally be defined. How indeed can friendship be good for us if it doesnt fit into a philosophers neat, systematising theory of the good? For Sophie Grace Chappell, friendship is neither systematic nor earnest, yet is certainly one of the greatest goods of life. Drawing on well-known examples from popular culture, and examining these alongside recent philosophical, political, social, and theological debates, Chappell demystifies and redefines friendship as a highly untidy and many-sided good, and certainly also as one of the most central goods of human experience. Author Biography Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University. Her philosophy books include Ethics and Experience, Knowing What to Do, Epiphanies, and Trans Figured. She is also a published poet (Songs For Winter Rain, 2021). Table of Contents Contents; Acknowledgements; Prelude: eighteen aphorisms; 1. Three friendships, and lots of questions; 2. Philosophers of friendship: an apology; 3. Why I dont start with a formal definition of friendship; 4. Examples of friendship; 5. Beginning the natural history of friendship; 6. Deepening the natural history of friendship; 7. Being with others; 8. Lewiss Four Loves-and Nygrens two; 9. Aristotles three kinds of Philia-and Aristotles will; 10. Friendship, love, and second-personality; 11. Friendship as an unemphatic good; 12. Bertrand Russell and his over-emphatic German friend; 13. Sensitivity to tacit knowledge; 14. Innocence; 15. Moralism; 16. Roles and spontaneity; 17. The benefits of friendship; 18. Eighteen quick questions and eighteen quick answers; Notes; References; Index. Promotional Philosophers often treat friendship as something systematic and earnest. For Chappell it is neither, yet still central to human experience. Details ISBN1009255541 Author Sophie Grace Chappell Pages 208 Publisher Cambridge University Press Series A Philosopher Looks At Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781009255547 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises DEWEY 155.925 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ISBN-10 1009255541 Publication Date 2024-07-18 UK Release Date 2024-07-18 Alternative 9781009255585 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:162549300;

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