lecture three - friendships with bad people Flashcards

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what does isserow say friendship involves

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concern for one another, mutual affection, desire for one another’s company and shared experiences

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what is isserow’s main claim in her paper

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it is morally bad to be friends with bad people because doing that involves having the wrong moral priorities

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what are two main reasons that support isserow’s claim

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other accounts of why this might be bad don’t seem to be adequate; and being friends with them suggest that we don’t actually think that the ways they’re morally bad are especially important

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what is an objection to Isserow’s claim

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it is not possible to have a true friendship with a bad person

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what is Isserow’s reply to that objection

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bad people can, and often do, exhibit loyalty to each other and support each other in ways that show friendship

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what is Isserow’s thesis

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an individual who counts a morally bad person as a friend is one who betrays a distinct kind of defect in her values

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what is the desert view

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a person who forges a friendship with a bad person goes wrong in extending to him certain good of which he is undeserving

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why is the desert view inadequate

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it is no essential part of our job description as friends that we be moral book-keepers who dole out kindness and support to our friends only in so far as they deserve it.

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what is the abetting view

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it suggests that perhaps our individual does wrong to others when she extends her friendship to a bad person

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why is the abetting view inadequate

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the extent to which one can claim credit for another’s moral accomplishments is not merely determined by whether or not one has entered into a friendship with them

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what is the risk view

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the new that to befriend those with faults is not necessarily to play fast and loose with one’s reputation

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why is the risk view inadequate

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it misidentifies the nature of fault in question; it mistakes a moral error for a purely prudential one

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what is the moral priorities view

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befriending a morally bad person suggests a issue in one’s moral priorities

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