A True Friend Stabs You in the Front: Astell’s Admonisher Conception of a Friend

My goal in what follows is to argue that Astell endorses what I call the admonisher conception of a friend. For I will argue that, according to Astell, a sufficient condition for whether someone is our friend is that they admonish us in her technical sense. So anyone who admonishes us in this sense—...

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Main Author: Jen Nguyen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aperio 2022-12-01
Series:Journal of Modern Philosophy
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Online Access:https://jmphil.org/articles/218