Can a Consequentialist Be a Good Friend?

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https://doi.org/10.14394/etyka.492

Abstract

Consequentialism is often held to be self-defeating due to its incompatibility with intimate relationships. This objection is especially vivid with respect to friendship, highly voluntary character of which is believed to be irreconcilable with impersonal, teleological and maximizing attitudes. There seems to be hardly any place for the least necessary of loves in die-hard consequentialist’s motivational structure. Another problem arises from the fact that both consequentialist and her friend might feel alienated from their relationship in the face of its immediate termination upon realization that it no longer provides maximal good.

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Published

2016-12-01

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Zyglewicz, Tomasz. 2016. “Can a Consequentialist Be a Good Friend?”. Etyka 52 (December). Warsaw, Poland:59-76. https://doi.org/10.14394/etyka.492.

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Vol. 52 (2016)

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