caa a22 4500 388110147 CHVBK 20180307125351.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0265052500002326 doi S0265052500002326 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0265052500002326 Brink David O. Philosophy, University of California, San Diego Eudaimonism, Love and Friendship, and Political Community [Elektronische Daten] [David O. Brink] It is common to regard love, friendship, and other associational ties to others as an important part of a happy or flourishing life. This would be easy enough to understand if we focused on friendships based on pleasure, or associations, such as business partnerships, predicated on mutual advantage. For then we could understand in a straightforward way how these interpersonal relationships would be valuable for someone involved in such relationships just insofar as they caused her pleasure or causally promoted her own independent interests. But many who regard love, friendship, and other associational ties as an important part of a happy or flourishing life suppose that in many sorts of associations—especially intimate associations—the proper attitude among associates is concern for the other for the other's own sake, not just for the pleasure or benefits one can extract from one's associates. It is fairly clear how having friends of this sort is beneficial. What is less clear is how being a friend of this sort might contribute to one's own happiness or well-being. Even if we can explain this, it looks as if the contribution that friendship makes to one's happiness could not be the reason one has to care for friends, for that would seem to make one's concern for others instrumental, not a concern for the other for her own sake. Copyright © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 1999 Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 16/1(1999), 252-289 0265-0525 16:1<252 1999 16 SOY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500002326 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500002326 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brink David O. Philosophy, University of California, San Diego NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 16/1(1999), 252-289 0265-0525 16:1<252 1999 16 SOY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge