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    Close friendship involves friends playing an active role ... — Carmelics
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    Close friendship involves friends playing an active role in transforming each other's evaluative outlook.

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    • 1.In friendship, one is receptive to having one's friend direct and interpret oneself.
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    • 2.Being directed by a friend means allowing the friend's interests and values to shape one's own interests and values.
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    • 3.Being interpreted by a friend means allowing one's self-understanding to be shaped by the friend's interpretations.
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    • 1.Aristotle's highest form of friendship (virtue friendship) requires that each friend already possesses stable, complete virtue prior to the relationship.
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    • 2.If virtuous character is a precondition for perfect friendship rather than its product, then transformation of evaluative outlook marks an inferior, developmental friendship at best.
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    • 3.Therefore, close friendship in its fullest sense presupposes rather than produces the evaluative outlooks of its participants.
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    • 1.Kant's autonomy principle holds that rational agents must be the sole legislators of their own moral will, immune from external determination of their normative commitments.
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    • 2.Allowing a friend's values to actively reshape one's own evaluative framework constitutes heteronomous determination of one's practical reason.
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    • 3.Genuine respect between friends, on Kantian grounds, demands preserving each person's evaluative independence rather than cultivating mutual transformation.
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    Cocking & Kennett (1998), in what might be a development of Rorty (1986/1993), offer an account of close friendship in part in terms of the friends playing a more active role in transforming each other’s evaluative outlook: in friendship, they claim, we are “receptive” to having our friends “direct” and “interpret” us and thereby change our interests. To be directed by your friend is to allow her interests, values, etc. to shape your own; thus, your friend may suggest that you go to the oper
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