Description: PrefaceIntroduction: The Nature and Significance of Friendship by Neera Kapur Badhwar PART I. FRIENDSHIP: GENERAL DISCUSSIONS 1. Friendship--The Least Necessary Love by C. S. Lewis 2. Friendship and Other Loves by Laurence Thomas 3. Love and Psychological Visibility by Nathaniel Branden 4. The Historicity of Psychological Attitudes: Love Is Not Love Which Alters Not When It Alteration Finds by Amelie O. Rorty PART II. FRIENDSHIP AND ETHICS 5. Aristotle on the Shared Life by Nancy Sherman 6. The Problem of Total Devotion by Robert M. Adams 7. Kant on Friendship by H. J. Paton 8. Personal Love and Kantian Ethics in Effi Briest by Julia Annas 9. Was Effi Briest a Victim of Kantian Morality? by Marcia Baron 10. Friendship as a Moral Phenomenon by Lawrence Blum 11. Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality by Peter Railton 12. Values and Purposes: The Limits of Teleology and the Ends of Friendship by Michael Stocker PART III. FRIENDSHIP, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS 13. Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women by Mary Lyndon Shanley 14. Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community by Marilyn Friedman 15. Political Animals and Civic Friendship by John M. Cooper Index

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