Introduction
Diane Jeske
Part I: Historical Perspectives
1. Friendship in the Confucian Tradition
Andrew Lambert
2. Plato’s Erotic Friendships
C.D.C. Reeve
3. Aristotle on the Nature and Value of Friendship
Corinne Gartner
4. The Stoics and Augustine on Friendship and Altruism
Tamer Nawar
5. Kantian Friendship
Karen Stohr
6. Wollstonecraft on ‘That Simple Food’ of Friendship
Ruth Abbey
Part II: Who Can Be Our Friends?
7. Friendship Between Children
Mary Healy
8. The Physician as Friend to the Patient
Nir Ben-Moshe
9. Can Parents and Their Children Be Friends?
Kristjan Kristjansson
10. God and Redemptive Friendship
Paul Moser
11. Friendship and Citizenship
Jonathan Seglow
12. Are Our Companion Animals Friends or Family?
Cheryl Abbate
Part III: Friendship and Other Relationships
13. Friendship and Family
Monika Betzler
14. Friendship Love and Romantic Love
Berit Brogaard
15. Friendship and Marriage
Christopher Bennett
Part IV: The Value and Rationality of Friendship
16. Friendship and Self-Interest
Richard Fumerton
17. Friendship and the Personal Good
David O. Brink
18. The Value of Friendship
Thomas Hurka
19. Friendship and Practical Reason
Daniel Koltonski
20. Friendship and Epistemic Partiality
Sarah Stroud
21. Epistemic Partiality to Friends and Value Commitments
Sanford Goldberg
Part V: Friendship, Morality, and Virtue
22. Friendship and Consequentialism
Scott Woodcock
23. Partiality to Friends
Troy Jollimore
24. Friendship and Special Obligations
Jörg Löschke
25. Are You a Good Friend?
Simon Keller
26. Friendship and Loyalty
John Kleinig
27. Friendship and Exploitation
George Tsai
Part VI: New Issues in Philosophy of Friendship
28. Friendship and Personal Identity
Katarina Perovic
29. Friends with Benefits
Natasha McKeever
30. Friendship and Social Media
Alexis Elder
31. Friendship and Feminist Values in Film
Katrien Schaubroeck
Biography
Diane Jeske is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. She is the author of Rationality and Moral Theory: How Intimacy Generates Reasons (2008), The Evil Within: Why We Need Moral Philosophy (2018), and Friendship and Social Media: A Philosophical Exploration (2019).
