The Limits of Loyalty

COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 14
THE QUESTION......Page 17
LOYALTY AND CONSCIENTIOUSNESS......Page 18
Loyalty in concern......Page 19
Loyalty in ritual......Page 20
Loyalty in belief......Page 22
LOYALTY AND SELF-AWARENESS......Page 23
LOYALTY AS PRIORITIZING INTERESTS......Page 24
LOYALTY AND THE SELF......Page 27
WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE LOYAL......Page 31
THE MOTIVE OF LOYALTY......Page 32
Responding to X itself......Page 33
The specialness of the relationship......Page 34
WHAT IS LOYALTY?......Page 36
SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACCOUNT......Page 37
LOYALTY IN BELIEF......Page 40
TWO OBSERVATIONS......Page 42
A FRIENDLY HEARING......Page 43
CLARIFICATIONS......Page 46
OBJECTIONS......Page 47
SOME THINGS THAT FRIENDS ARE FOR......Page 50
OPENNESS, RESPONSIVENESS AND BELIEF......Page 52
WEIGHING UP THE CONFLICTING NORMS......Page 55
FRIENDSHIP AND BELIEF-MANAGEMENT......Page 58
THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO FRIENDSHIP AND MORALITY......Page 60
CONFLICTS WITH EPISTEMIC NORMS AND CONFLICTS WITH MORALITY......Page 62
FRIENDSHIP AND ALIENATION......Page 64
THE VALUE AND ROLE OF FRIENDSHIP......Page 65
THE PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE ABOUT PATRIOTISM......Page 68
THE QUESTION......Page 73
LOYALTIES DERIVED AND NON-DERIVED......Page 74
SERIOUSNESS......Page 76
JUSTIFICATION......Page 77
PATRIOTISM AND THE QUALITIES OF A COUNTRY......Page 80
‘‘MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG’’......Page 85
WHAT IS PATRIOTISM?......Page 86
CONFESSIONS......Page 87
BAD FAITH AND PATRIOTISM......Page 89
CLARIFYING THE THESIS......Page 92
THE STRENGTH OF THE THESIS......Page 93
TWO PROBLEM CASES......Page 97
WHAT IS SO BAD ABOUT BAD FAITH?......Page 99
A VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE?......Page 100
FINDING ‘‘BAD FAITH’’ EVERYWHERE......Page 101
THE BIASED SOCIAL DEMOCRAT......Page 102
THE BIASED PARENT......Page 103
THE BIASED FRIEND......Page 104
CAN WE GET BY WITHOUT PATRIOTISM?......Page 107
CONCLUSION......Page 108
INTRODUCTION......Page 110
The debt theory explained......Page 112
Duties in response to unrequested benefits?......Page 114
Duties in response to the performance of duties?......Page 115
The duties of children and the duties of debtors......Page 116
The gratitude theory explained......Page 117
Duties of gratitude......Page 119
The point of filial duties......Page 122
Gratitude and parental sacrifice......Page 123
The demands of gratitude......Page 125
Setting examples and sharing experiences......Page 127
The friendship theory explained......Page 131
Friendships between parents and children......Page 132
Discretion and weightiness......Page 133
Desiderata......Page 136
The case for the existence of special goods......Page 138
The special goods......Page 140
From special goods to special duties......Page 143
Restrictions on filial duties......Page 148
When do grown children have filial duties?......Page 149
Critiques and disagreements......Page 151
Difficulties for the special goods theory......Page 152
The good of a loyal child......Page 155
Is it enough just to seem loyal?......Page 156
Duties of feeling......Page 158
THE STORY SO FAR......Page 160
The question......Page 162
Being loyal and valuing loyalty......Page 163
Valuing loyalty and the value of loyalty......Page 165
Against loyalty as a value......Page 167
The ethics of character......Page 168
Loyalty as a character trait: version one......Page 169
Loyalty as a character trait: version two......Page 171
Would you want your child to be loyal?......Page 172
On the complete lack of loyalty......Page 174
COMMUNITARIANISM AND LOYALTY......Page 178
THE ARGUMENT FROM THE METAPHYSICAL SELF......Page 179
THE ARGUMENT FROM THE ETHICAL SELF......Page 182
THE EMPIRICAL ARGUMENT......Page 187
THE ‘‘MORALITY AS LOYALTY’’ ARGUMENT......Page 190
CONCLUSION......Page 197
THE IDEA OF AN ETHICS OF LOYALTY......Page 198
TWO EXPRESSIONS OF LOYALTY......Page 201
BEING LOYAL......Page 202
VALUING LOYALTY......Page 203
INTERPRETING ROYCE......Page 205
DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN LOYALTIES......Page 207
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LOYALTY......Page 209
THE NEED FOR LOYALTY......Page 210
ROYCE AND COMMUNITARIANISM......Page 213
INTRODUCTION......Page 216
IS DISLOYALTY ALWAYS WRONG?......Page 217
LOYALTY, DISLOYALTY AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY......Page 220
SUFFERING DISLOYALTY......Page 222
AFFRONTS AND EXPECTATIONS......Page 223
EXPECTATIONS AND SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS......Page 227
COMPARING LOYALTY AND DISLOYALTY......Page 229
WHAT IS WRONG WITH DISLOYALTY?......Page 231
Conclusion......Page 234
Postscript: Universal morality and the problem of loyalty......Page 236
Bibliography......Page 240
Index......Page 245