The Philosophy of Loyalty

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The Philosophy of Loyalty is a 1908 philosophical work by Josiah Royce that explores loyalty as the central moral principle guiding individual character and social ethics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
philosophical work
addresses ethical evaluation of causes
problem of conflicting loyalties
relationship between individual and community
aimsTo provide a systematic ethics based on loyalty
arguesThat loyalty is the heart of all moral life
moral duties are grounded in loyalty to causes
author Josiah Royce NERFINISHED
centralConcept loyalty as the basic moral principle
contributesTo social philosophy
theory of moral obligation
virtue theory
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
defines loyalty as the willing and practical devotion of a person to a cause
firstEditionFormat print
focusesOn ethical obligations
individual character
social relations
genre ethics literature
moral philosophy
hasInfluenceOn 20th-century discussions of virtue ethics
philosophy of community
hasPart account of loyalty to a cause
analysis of the nature of loyalty
discussion of conflicts of loyalty
treatment of community and social order
influencedBy American idealism
pragmatism
intendedAudience professional philosophers
students of ethics
language English
mainSubject loyalty
moral philosophy
social ethics
philosophicalTradition American philosophy NERFINISHED
idealism
proposes loyalty as the central virtue of ethics
publicationYear 1908
publisher Macmillan Company NERFINISHED
relatedWork The Problem of Christianity NERFINISHED
The World and the Individual NERFINISHED
setsOutTo reconstruct ethics around the concept of loyalty
timePeriodOfPhilosophicalContext early 20th century

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