We prize loyalty in our friends, lovers and colleagues, but loyalty raises difficult questions. What is the point of loyalty? Should we be loyal to country, just as we are loyal to friends and family? Can the requirements of loyalty conflict with the requirements of morality? In this book, originally published in 2007, Simon Keller explores the varieties of loyalty and their psychological and ethical differences, and concludes that loyalty is an essential but fallible part of human life. He argues that grown children can be obliged to be loyal to their parents, that good friendship can sometimes conflict with moral and epistemic standards, and that patriotism is intimately linked with certain dangers and delusions. He goes on to build an approach to the ethics of loyalty that differs from standard communitarian and universalist accounts. His book will interest a wide range of readers in ethics and political philosophy.

We are partial to people with whom we share special relationships--if someone is your child, parent, or friend, you wouldn't treat them as you would a stranger. But is partiality justified, and if so, why? "Partiality" presents a theory of the reasons supporting special treatment within special relationships and explores the vexing problem of how we might reconcile the moral value of these relationships with competing claims of impartial morality.

Simon Keller explains that in order to understand why we give special treatment to our family and friends, we need to understand how people come to matter in their own rights. Keller first presents two main accounts of partiality: the projects view, on which reasons of partiality arise from the place that people take within our lives and our commitments, and the relationships view, on which relationships themselves contain fundamental value or reason-giving force. Keller then argues that neither view is satisfactory because neither captures the experience of acting well within special relationships. Instead, Keller defends the individuals view, on which reasons of partiality arise from the value of the individuals with whom our relationships are shared. He defends this view by saying that we must accept that two people, whether friend or stranger, can have the same value, even as their value makes different demands upon people with whom they share different relationships. Keller explores the implications of this claim within a wider understanding of morality and our relationships with groups, institutions, and countries.

We prize loyalty in our friends, lovers and colleagues, but loyalty raises difficult questions. What is the point of loyalty? Should we be loyal to country, just as we are loyal to friends and family? Can the requirements of loyalty conflict with the requirements of morality? In this book, originally published in 2007, Simon Keller explores the varieties of loyalty and their psychological and ethical differences, and concludes that loyalty is an essential but fallible part of human life. He argues that grown children can be obliged to be loyal to their parents, that good friendship can sometimes conflict with moral and epistemic standards, and that patriotism is intimately linked with certain dangers and delusions. He goes on to build an approach to the ethics of loyalty that differs from standard communitarian and universalist accounts. His book will interest a wide range of readers in ethics and political philosophy.

Dies ist die Fortsetzung meiner Geschichte. Sie handelt davon, welch zerstorerische Kraft einer Depression innewohnt. Einer Krankheit, die leider in unserer Gesellschaft argwohnisch und mit Unsicherheit betrachtet - und oft genug als "Burnout" abgetan wird. Was aber passierte mit jemandem, der - wie ich - fest im Sattel der Selbstandigkeit sass, eine Familie gegrundet, ein Haus gebaut und einen Baum gepflanzt hatte?Die Ironie dabei war, dass ich meinen Kunden uber 12 Jahre lang genau die Versicherung empfohlen hatte, welche sich jetzt - im Leistungsfall - so vehement weigerte..

Alltagliche Begebenheiten, Meldungen in der Presse oder Satzfetzen vom Nebentisch. All das in ein Reagenzglas geben, gut schutteln und durch die Augen eines unruhigen Mannergeistes betrachten. Vollig neue Theorien, basierend auf fundiertem Halbwissen. Verpackt in witzige, nachdenkliche und immer typisch mannliche Kurzgeschichten. Warnung: Das Lesen dieses Buches kann zu Heiterkeitsanfallen fuhren

Ein Buch uber eine Krankheit, die plotzlich jeden von uns treffen kann. Dies ist meine Geschichte. Sie handelt davon, wie ich mich der Depression entgegenstellte, wie sie mich und mein Leben verandert hat. Personlich, ehrlich, offen und die komplette Gefuhlspalette durchlebend handelt sie von meinem Bungee-Sprung in die eigene Seele. Ein Buch, nicht nur fur Betroffene "