Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships

by George P. Fletcher

Book Overview

At a time when age-old political structures are crumbling, civil strife abounds, and economic uncertainty permeates the air, loyalty offers us security in our relationships with associates, friends, and family. Yet loyalty is a suspect virtue. It is not impartial. It is not blind. It violates the principles of morality that have dominated Western thought for the last two hundred years.
Loyalties are also thought to be irrational and contrary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195070267
• ISBN13: 9780195070262
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"