Loyalty / edited by Sanford Levinson, Joel Parker, and Paul Woodruff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Conceptions of loyalty -- pt. II. Loyalty and the law -- pt. III. Military loyalty -- pt. IV. Partisan loyalty.

Loyalty and morality / Bernard Gert -- Loyalty from a Confucian perspective / Kathleen M. Higgins -- In place of loyalty : friendship and adversary politics in classical Greece / Paul Woodruff -- Lawyerly fidelity / Daniel Markovits -- Lawyerly fidelity : an ethical and empirical critique / Lynn Mather -- A fractured fidelity to cause / Nancy Sherman -- The Psychology of just and unjust wars : response to Sherman / Ryan K. Balot -- For constitution and profession : paradoxes of military service in a liberal democracy / Paul O. Carrese -- The case for party loyalty / Russell Muirhead -- Democracy and the problem of the partisan state / Yasmin Dawood.

Based on the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy meeting that took place at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in December 2007.

"Featuring essays by scholars working in a variety of subjects, [this book] presents diverse perspectives on dilemmas posed by potential conflicts between loyalties to specific institutions or professional roles and more universalistic conceptions of moral duty. Beings with a philosophical exploration of theories of loyalty, both Eastern and Western, then moves on to examine several problematic situations in which loyalty is often a factor: partisan politics, the armed forces, and lawyer-client relationships"--Publisher description.

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