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

    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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    Key Terms

    Developmental friendship(in philosophy of relationships)
    A friendship where the people involved are still growing and changing in how they understand what matters morally.
    Evaluative outlook(in ethics)
    Your perspective on what is good, bad, right, or wrong—essentially your values and moral judgments.
    Inferior(in comparative analysis)
    Lower in rank, quality, or value—not as good as something else being compared to it.
    Precondition(as what recognitive practices are for conceptual content)
    Something that must exist or happen first, before something else can exist or happen.
    Product(in philosophy of causation)
    A result or outcome that comes from something else; what is created or produced by a process.

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    perfect friendship(Aristotelian taxonomy of friendship)
    A friendship between two individuals who recognize each other's good character, spend time engaged in virtuous activities together, and are equally virtuous.
    virtuous character(in ethics)
    A stable pattern of being a good person—having developed habits and qualities like honesty, courage, and kindness so deeply that acting well comes naturally to you.

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