...Daniel Koltonski On the shared-ends account of close friendship, proper care for a friend as an agent requires seeing yourself as having important reasons to accommodate and promote the friend's valuable ends for the friend's own sake. However, that friends share ends doesn't inoculate them against...

... to the conventionalist's core instincts, including embracing: the view that binding promises must involve the promisee's belief that performance will occur; the view that through the promise, the promisee and promisor create a shared end; and the tendency to take promises between strangers, rather than intimates...

... value good is its benefit to the individual appreciator. But engagement with aesthetic value is often a social, participatory matter: sharing and discussing aesthetic goods, imitating aesthetic agents, dancing, cooking, dining, or making music together. This article argues that we should understand...

... about shared agency. But it does not. My case against individualism will draw attention to certain aspects of shared agency, emphasizing in par- ticular (i) the commitment of each participant to the activity or its end, and (ii) the distinctive pattern of commitments between participants when...

... concerns the final decision, not just the sequence of deliberation. The concord of citizen-friends is proved when, based on their shared commitment to an important end, they join in a course of action to achieve it—a venture that may well require one or both of them to sub- mit to an opinion he or she...

... concerns the final decision, not just the sequence of deliberation. The concord of citizen-friends is proved when, based on their shared commitment to an important end, they join in a course of action to achieve it—a venture that may well require one or both of them to sub- mit to an opinion he or she...

... concerns the final decision, not just the sequence of deliberation. The concord of citizen-friends is proved when, based on their shared commitment to an important end, they join in a course of action to achieve it—a venture that may well require one or both of them to sub- mit to an opinion he or she...

... concerns the final decision, not just the sequence of deliberation. The concord of citizen-friends is proved when, based on their shared commitment to an important end, they join in a course of action to achieve it—a venture that may well require one or both of them to sub- mit to an opinion he or she...

... concerns the final decision, not just the sequence of deliberation. The concord of citizen-friends is proved when, based on their shared commitment to an important end, they join in a course of action to achieve it—a venture that may well require one or both of them to sub- mit to an opinion he or she...

... concerns the final decision, not just the sequence of deliberation. The concord of citizen-friends is proved when, based on their shared commitment to an important end, they join in a course of action to achieve it—a venture that may well require one or both of them to sub- mit to an opinion he or she...

... concerns the final decision, not just the sequence of deliberation. The concord of citizen-friends is proved when, based on their shared commitment to an important end, they join in a course of action to achieve it—a venture that may well require one or both of them to sub- mit to an opinion he or she...

... concerns the final decision, not just the sequence of deliberation. The concord of citizen-friends is proved when, based on their shared commitment to an important end, they join in a course of action to achieve it—a venture that may well require one or both of them to sub- mit to an opinion he or she...

... concerns the final decision, not just the sequence of deliberation. The concord of citizen-friends is proved when, based on their shared commitment to an important end, they join in a course of action to achieve it—a venture that may well require one or both of them to sub- mit to an opinion he or she...

... concerns the final decision, not just the sequence of deliberation. The concord of citizen-friends is proved when, based on their shared commitment to an important end, they join in a course of action to achieve it—a venture that may well require one or both of them to sub- mit to an opinion he or she...

.... Aristotle claims that goods, that is, choiceworthy ends, can be of three types: those that are sought as a means to another good, with no intrinsic value themselves, those that are sought for their own sake and also for the sake of another good, and those that are sought only for their own sake...

... to work together toward shared social goals (273). Nevertheless, it’s not clear to me that being in a “beloved community,” with all those who have consistently opposed showing humane regard to everyone, is good in itself, or a worthwhile end. One might think that civic grace is something that we only...

... Obligations to the Other Animals.” The conclusion of her argument is that “we are committed to the view of animals as ends in themselves” (150) because “we recognize them to be fellow creatures, with a good of their own just like ours” (148). She agrees with Kant that “our moral relations to animals have...

... Kantian ideas, available as resources in our shared philosophical practice. Of course, Kantians and others will disagree with some of her arguments and proposals, but many of these discussions yet to come will themselves become important additions to the existing scholarship. Fortunately, too, for a book...

... their common ends qua part of an individual’s mind. On this understanding, it would turn out that just poleis and just individuals do share a common property in virtue of which they both count as just. Nonetheless, I think that it is fair to say that this way of understand- ing the conditions under...

...-groundedness in Bill Calculation. At t 2 you have sufficient evidence, E, to believe that your shares are $27.60, and you believe so on the basis of a good argument. At t 3 , you learn that your peer disagrees, and you now have E t3 . As I argued, E t3 supports the belief that your shares are $27.60...