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Friendship and Reasons of Intimacy
Author(s) -
JESKE DIANE
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00106.x
Subject(s) - friendship , analogy , prudence , social psychology , psychology , categorization , relation (database) , fidelity , value (mathematics) , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , telecommunications , database , machine learning
Reasons of intimacy, i.e. reasons to care for friends and other intimates, resist categorization as either subjective Humean reasons or as objective consequentialist reasons. Reasons of intimacy are grounded in the friendship relation itself. not in the psychological attitudes of the agent or in the objective intrinsic value of the friend or the friendship. So reasons of intimacy are objective and agent‐relative and can be understood by analogy with reasons of fidelity and reasons of prudence. Such an analogy can help us to understand which objective agent‐relative reasons we have and which, such as deontological constraints, we do not have.