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- Title
Blaming friends.
- Authors
Scholten, Matthé
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the complex relations between friendship and blame. In the first part, I show that to be friends is to have certain evaluative, emotional and behavioral dispositions toward each other, and distinguish between two kinds of norms of friendship, namely friendship-based obligations and friendship-constituting rules. Friendship-based obligations tag actions of friends as obligatory, permissible or wrong, whereas friendship-constituting rules specify conditions that, if met, make it so that two persons stand in a particular type of relationship defined by various friendship-based obligations. I argue that whereas friendship-based obligations apply to actions under direct voluntary control, friendship-constituting rules apply to emotional and evaluative attitudes. The second part develops an account of friendship blame by comparing Scanlon's account of blame with Wallace's Strawsonian account of blame. I demonstrate that Scanlon's account picks out responses that become appropriate when friends' attitudes are not in agreement with friendship-constituting rules, whereas Wallace's account picks out responses that become appropriate when friends violate friendship-based obligations. Arguing that the responses picked out by Scanlon's account do not amount to blame, I show that, when combined, the views give an illuminating picture of possible reactions to friends who fall short of the standards of friendship.
- Subjects
FRIENDSHIP; BLAME; EMOTIONS; RESPONSIBILITY; DISPOSITION (Philosophy)
- Publication
Philosophical Studies, 2022, Vol 179, Issue 5, p1545
- ISSN
0031-8116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11098-021-01718-w