Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    The shared activity of friendship is partly constitutive ... — Carmelics
    Home/Virtue Ethics
    HistoryEditSee Inverse

    The shared activity of friendship is partly constitutive of human flourishing.

    Virtue Ethics
    ?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.
    1 reason for
    2 reasons against

    Sign in or register to share your perspective on this statement.

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.

    Reasons For

    1 perspective
    Reason for
    ?
    • 1.Living well requires engaging in moral and intellectual activities continuously and with pleasure and interest.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.It is often difficult to sustain interest in moral and intellectual activities without being tempted to act otherwise.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Friendship, through its shared values and shared activities, reinforces one's intellectual and practical understanding of such activities as worthwhile despite their difficulty.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    2 perspectives
    Reason against 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Kant's moral framework holds that virtue grounded in inclination or social reinforcement lacks the unconditional worth of duty-based motivation.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.If friendship is constitutively necessary for flourishing, then the solitary virtuous agent—Kant's paradigm of moral worth—is rendered deficient through no fault of their own.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.A conception of flourishing that cannot accommodate the morally autonomous solitary individual conflates contingent social conditions with necessary constituents of the good life.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason against 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Aristotle himself acknowledges in NE IX.8 that the virtuous person is most self-sufficient and least in need of others to sustain their commitment to virtue.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.If self-sufficiency (autarkeia) is a mark of eudaimonia, then constitutive dependence on friendship for flourishing undermines rather than supports the Aristotelian account.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Friendship may be an expression or enhancement of flourishing rather than a partly constitutive condition of it, making the causal and constitutive claims conflated in the original argument.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Topics

    Virtue Ethics

    Connections

    1 topic

    Moral Responsibility1 linked

    Related

    A conception of flourishing that cannot accommodate the morally autonomous solit...Aristotle himself acknowledges in NE IX.8 that the virtuous person is most self-...Friendship is needed to prevent the flagging of interest in pursuing activities ...Friendship may be an expression or enhancement of flourishing rather than a part...
    +6 moreShow less
    Friendship, through its shared values and shared activities, reinforces one's in...If friendship is constitutively necessary for flourishing, then the solitary vir...If self-sufficiency (autarkeia) is a mark of eudaimonia, then constitutive depen...It is often difficult to sustain interest in moral and intellectual activities w...Kant's moral framework holds that virtue grounded in inclination or social reinf...Living well requires engaging in moral and intellectual activities continuously ...

    Similar

    Recognition of good character in another, combined with shared virtuou...84%The friendship is grounded in the other person's good character.84%Aristotle affirms the intrinsic value of virtuous activity in politica...83%Their friendship is based on mutual recognition of good character.83%

    Source

    AI-extracted1/3 agreementValid
    SEP: friendship
    View source passageHide passage
    Yet friendship is not merely instrumentally valuable, as is hinted at by Annis’ claim that “our lives would be significantly less full given the universal demise of friendship” (1987, 351). Cooper (1977b), interpreting Aristotle, provides two arguments for why this might be so. First, Cooper’s Aristotle claims, living well requires that one know the goodness of one’s own life; however, given the perpetual possibility of self-deception, one is able accurately to evaluate one’s own life only throu
    Extraction notes

    Validity: Extracted via Max plan + API grounding/validity checks

    Details

    Type
    claim
    Perspectives
    3 (1 for, 2 against)
    Edits
    1 edit