On Loyalty and Loyalties: The Contours of a Problematic Virtue

by John Kleinig

Book Overview

Deep friendship may express profound loyalty, but so too may virulent nationalism. What can and should we say about this Janus-faced virtue of the will? This volume explores at length the contours of an important and troubling virtue -- its cognates, contrasts, and perversions; its strengths and weaknesses; its awkward relations with universal morality; its oppositional form and limits; as well as the ways in which it functions in various associative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199371261
• ISBN13: 9780199371266
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"