Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship Public Lecture: Equal Mutual Love and Respect: Kant on Friendship
Prof. Paul Guyer |
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4:30 – 6:30 pm |
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College Theatre, Wu Yee Sun College (with synchronous online broadcast) |
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Abstract:
Kant discusses the classical topic of friendship in a concluding appendix to the Doctrine of Virtue, the second half of his final work in moral philosophy, the Metaphysics of Morals of 1797, as well as in his lectures on ethics. I address three issues in his treatment: (i) how a relationship that any one person can have with only a small number of others fits into a moral philosophy that supposedly requires complete impartiality, or that each moral agent treats all others in the same way; (ii) if friendship can be any kind of duty, what kind of duty it might be, and why; and (iii) what it means for both how one reveals oneself in friendship and what sorts of things that one friend can say to another that friendship requires “equal mutual love and respect” — namely, that even the closest friendships are morally complex relationships that require to be “handled with care.”
Conducted in English
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