Loyalty to Loyalty

<p>As a virtue loyalty has an ambiguous place in our thinking about moral judgments. We lauded the loyalty of firefighters who risked their lives to save others on 9/11 while condemning the loyalty of those who perpetrated the catastrophe. Responding to such uneasiness and confusion <em>Loyalty to Loyalty</em> contributes to ongoing conversation about how we should respond to conflicts in loyalty in a pluralistic world.</p><p>The lone philosopher to base an ethical theory on the virtue of loyalty is Josiah Royce. <em>Loyalty to Loyalty </em>engages Royce's moral theory revealing how loyalty rather than being just one virtue among others is central to living a genuinely moral and meaningful life. Mathew A. Foust shows how the theory of loyalty Royce advances can be brought to bear on issues such as the partiality/impartiality debate in ethical theory the role of loyalty in liberatory struggle and the ethics of whistleblowing and disaster response.</p>