Book contents
- Moral Philosophy
- Talking Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Rationality and Goodness
- Acting well
- Apprehending Human Form
- Does Modern Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?
- Absolutes and Particulars
- On the So-called Logic of Practical Inference
- Absolute Prohibitions without Divine Promises
- Moral Obligation
- The Lesser Evil
- The Ethics of Co-operation in Wrongdoing
- Authority
- The Force of Numbers
- Reason, Intention, and Choice
- Modern Moral Philosophy and the Problem of Relevant Descriptions
- Index
Absolutes and Particulars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022
Book contents
- Moral Philosophy
- Talking Philosophy
- Moral Philosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Rationality and Goodness
- Acting well
- Apprehending Human Form
- Does Modern Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?
- Absolutes and Particulars
- On the So-called Logic of Practical Inference
- Absolute Prohibitions without Divine Promises
- Moral Obligation
- The Lesser Evil
- The Ethics of Co-operation in Wrongdoing
- Authority
- The Force of Numbers
- Reason, Intention, and Choice
- Modern Moral Philosophy and the Problem of Relevant Descriptions
- Index
Summary
The same point applies, though perhaps less dramatically and with less obvious potential for disaster, to the non-erotic varieties of love. Maybe I hang out with you because you shake a wicked cocktail, or can teach me how to catch rainbow trout. Maybe, in fact, this is the only reason I hang out with you. Non-sexual friendships of these superficial sorts—and perhaps I can show that there is some philosophical interest in that word ‘superficial’—are as familiar and commonplace as sexual friendships of the sort that bothered Anne Gregory.
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- Moral Philosophy , pp. 147 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022