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7Like Father Like Son?In Fritz Allhoff, Lon S. Nease & Michael W. Austin (eds.), Fatherhood ‐ Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-09-24.
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79Amicably DeceivedPhilosophical Papers 45 (1-2): 133-158. 2016.A widely accepted thesis in the philosophy of friendship is what I call "the self-knowledge thesis," which says that good friendship is essentially such as to conduce to self-knowledge. I argue in this paper that the self-knowledge thesis is false. Good friendship need not conduce to self-knowledge, for it is part of the nature and value of friendship that it might lead us to form false beliefs about ourselves.
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5Aristotle on Other-Selfhood and Reciprocal ShapingHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 29 (4): 319-336. 2012.This paper concerns the status of Aristotle’s claim that a friend is another self in NE IX.4. Against the prevailing interpretation, I defend the view that Aristotle uses the other-self claim to explain how a virtuous person who values himself will come to value his friend, according to which 1) loving a friend is an extension of self-love, and 2) the conception of the friend as another self explains how the friend’s eudaimonia becomes constitutive of the agent’s eudaimonia. I argue that this v…Read more
Anthony Carreras
Lone Star College
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Lone Star CollegeProfessor
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |