Friendship

<p><b>Addresses the question of whether special preference for friends is morally justified.</b></p><p>In Friendship James O. Grunebaum introduces a new conceptual framework to articulate explain and understand similarities and differences between various conceptions of friendship. Asking whether special preference for friends is morally justified Grunebaum answers that question by analyzing a comprehensive comparison of not only Aristotle's three well-known kinds of friendship-pleasure utility and virtue-but also a variety of lesser-known friendship conceptions from Kant C. S. Lewis and Montaigne. The book clarifies differences about how friends ought to behave toward each other and how these differences are in part what separate the various conceptions of friendship.</p>