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A Theory of FreedomEnhancing Social Freedom through the Values of Friendship

A Theory of Freedom: Enhancing Social Freedom through the Values of Friendship [Social relations are, very simply, individuals’ concrete, particular relationships with others, even if their interactions with others are a consequence of interacting with institutions. For this r eason, I believe that the best model to frame robust socially free relations is one most closely associated with daily interaction—friendship. The majority of individuals’ social freedom is exercised through others that they know and consider—to some extent and in some respects—as a friend or acquaintance. Whether interactions take place with the CVS pharmacist, the school nurse, or a neighbor at a bloc party, freedom largely manifests in real conversations or activities with people likely encountered repeatedly and in multiple contexts. These relations require more attentiveness than values like toleration permit but they do not further demand the intimacy of friendship proper. The friendship model does not require unfamiliars to treat one another as intimate friends, but there is room within it for the corresponding norms to be generalized. Therefore, the norms of friendship that moderate exchange and foster mutuality are both desirable and valuable to regulating exchanges between unfamiliars who desire freedom in communication.1 If individuals aim to enhance social freedom, it is important for them to promote the values connected to friendship within their relations even if they do not desire to pursue actual friendships with those others.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Theory of FreedomEnhancing Social Freedom through the Values of Friendship

Part of the Breaking Feminist Waves Book Series
Welch, Shay
A Theory of Freedom — Nov 9, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
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978-1-349-44203-4
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37 –52
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10.1057/9781137295026_3
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Abstract

[Social relations are, very simply, individuals’ concrete, particular relationships with others, even if their interactions with others are a consequence of interacting with institutions. For this r eason, I believe that the best model to frame robust socially free relations is one most closely associated with daily interaction—friendship. The majority of individuals’ social freedom is exercised through others that they know and consider—to some extent and in some respects—as a friend or acquaintance. Whether interactions take place with the CVS pharmacist, the school nurse, or a neighbor at a bloc party, freedom largely manifests in real conversations or activities with people likely encountered repeatedly and in multiple contexts. These relations require more attentiveness than values like toleration permit but they do not further demand the intimacy of friendship proper. The friendship model does not require unfamiliars to treat one another as intimate friends, but there is room within it for the corresponding norms to be generalized. Therefore, the norms of friendship that moderate exchange and foster mutuality are both desirable and valuable to regulating exchanges between unfamiliars who desire freedom in communication.1 If individuals aim to enhance social freedom, it is important for them to promote the values connected to friendship within their relations even if they do not desire to pursue actual friendships with those others.]

Published: Nov 9, 2015

Keywords: Social Relation; Bench Press; Free Relation; Friendly Relation; Asymmetrical Role

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