Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 What is loyalty63; -- THE QUESTION -- LOYALTY AND CONSCIENTIOUSNESS -- EXPRESSIONS OF LOYALTY -- Loyalty in concern -- Loyalty in advocacy -- Loyalty in ritual -- Loyalty in identification -- Loyalty in belief -- LOYALTY AND SELF45;AWARENESS -- LOYALTY AS PRIORITIZING INTERESTS -- LOYALTY AND THE SELF -- WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE LOYAL -- THE MOTIVE OF LOYALTY -- The emotional pull -- Responding to X itself -- The specialness of the relationship -- WHAT IS LOYALTY63; -- SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACCOUNT -- CHAPTER 2 Friendship and belief -- LOYALTY IN BELIEF -- TWO OBSERVATIONS -- A FRIENDLY HEARING -- CLARIFICATIONS -- OBJECTIONS -- SOME THINGS THAT FRIENDS ARE FOR -- OPENNESS44; RESPONSIVENESS AND BELIEF -- WEIGHING UP THE CONFLICTING NORMS -- FRIENDSHIP AND BELIEF45;MANAGEMENT -- THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO FRIENDSHIP AND MORALITY -- CONFLICTS WITH EPISTEMIC NORMS AND CONFLICTS WITH MORALITY -- FRIENDSHIP AND ALIENATION -- THE VALUE AND ROLE OF FRIENDSHIP -- CHAPTER 3 What is patriotism63; -- THE PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE ABOUT PATRIOTISM -- THE QUESTION -- CHOICE -- LOYALTIES DERIVED AND NON45;DERIVED -- SERIOUSNESS -- JUSTIFICATION -- PATRIOTISM AND THE QUALITIES OF A COUNTRY -- 8216;8216;MY COUNTRY44; RIGHT OR WRONG -- WHAT IS PATRIOTISM63; -- CHAPTER 4 Against patriotism -- CONFESSIONS -- BAD FAITH AND PATRIOTISM -- CLARIFYING THE THESIS -- THE STRENGTH OF THE THESIS -- TWO PROBLEM CASES -- WHAT IS SO BAD ABOUT BAD FAITH63; -- A VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE63; -- FINDING 8216;8216;BAD FAITH EVERYWHERE -- THE BIASED SOCIAL DEMOCRAT -- THE BIASED PARENT -- THE BIASED FRIEND -- CAN WE GET BY WITHOUT PATRIOTISM63; -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 5 Filial duty58; debt44; gratitude and friendship -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEBT THEORY -- The debt theory explained -- Duties in response to unrequested benefits63; -- Duties in response to the performance of duties63; -- The duties of children and the duties of debtors -- THE GRATITUDE THEORY -- The gratitude theory explained -- Duties of gratitude -- The point of filial duties -- Gratitude and parental sacrifice -- The demands of gratitude -- Setting examples and sharing experiences -- THE FRIENDSHIP THEORY -- The friendship theory explained -- Friendships between parents and children -- Discretion and weightiness -- CHAPTER 6 Filial duty58; special goods and compulsory loyalty -- THE SPECIAL GOODS THEORY -- Desiderata -- The case for the existence of special goods -- The special goods -- From special goods to special duties -- Restrictions on filial duties -- When do grown children have filial duties63; -- Critiques and disagreements -- Difficulties for the special goods theory -- A DUTY TO BE LOYAL -- The good of a loyal child -- Is it enough just to seem loyal63; -- Duties of feeling -- CHAPTER 7 Is loyalty a value63; Is loyalty a virtue63; -- THE STORY SO FAR -- IS LOYALTY A VALUE63; -- The question -- Being loyal and valuing loyalty -- Valuing loyalty and the value of loyalty -- Against loyalty as a value -- IS LOYALTY A VIRTUE63; -- The ethics of character.
We prize loyalty in our friends, lovers and colleagues, but loyalty raises difficult questions. What is the point of loyalty? Should we be loyal to country, just as we are loyal to friends and family? Can the requirements of loyalty conflict with the requirements of morality? In this book, originally published in 2007, Simon Keller explores the varieties of loyalty and their psychological and ethical differences, and concludes that loyalty is an essential but fallible part of human life. He argues that grown children can be obliged to be loyal to their parents, that good friendship can sometimes conflict with moral and epistemic standards, and that patriotism is intimately linked with certain dangers and delusions. He goes on to build an approach to the ethics of loyalty that differs from standard communitarian and universalist accounts. His book will interest a wide range of readers in ethics and political philosophy
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