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16 - Roles and Spontaneity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2024

Sophie Grace Chappell
Sophie Grace Chappell
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The Open University, Milton Keynes
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In general, then, moralism in ethical philosophy means obsessively reducing everything we care about to ought and duty, right and wrong, permission and obligation. So moralism about friendship means doing this obsessive reduction in the specific case of friendship.

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A Philosopher Looks at Friendship , pp. 158 - 164
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Roles and Spontaneity
  • Sophie Grace Chappell, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: A Philosopher Looks at Friendship
  • Online publication: 09 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255585.017
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  • Roles and Spontaneity
  • Sophie Grace Chappell, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: A Philosopher Looks at Friendship
  • Online publication: 09 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255585.017
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  • Roles and Spontaneity
  • Sophie Grace Chappell, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: A Philosopher Looks at Friendship
  • Online publication: 09 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255585.017
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