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We are partial to people with whom we share special relationships--if someone is your child, parent, or friend, you wouldn't treat them as you would a stranger. But is partiality justified, and if so, why? Partiality presents a theory of the reasons supporting special treatment within special relationships and explores the vexing problem of how we might reconcile the moral value of these relationships with competing claims of impartial morality. Simon Keller explains that in order to understand why we give special treatment to our family and friends, we need to understand how people come to matter in their own rights. Keller first presents two main accounts of partiality: the projects view, on which reasons of partiality arise from the place that people take within our lives and our commitments, and the relationships view, on which relationships themselves contain fundamental value or reason-giving force. Keller then argues that neither view is satisfactory because neither captures the experience of acting well within special relationships. Instead, Keller defends the individuals view, on which reasons of partiality arise from the value of the individuals with whom our relationships are shared. He defends this view by saying that we must accept that two people, whether friend or stranger, can have the same value, even as their value makes different demands upon people with whom they share different relationships. Keller explores the implications of this claim within a wider understanding of morality and our relationships with groups, institutions, and countries.

Begünstigung. --- Interpersonal relations --- Parteilichkeit. --- Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung. --- Philosophy. --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Philosophy

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We prize loyalty in our friends, lovers and colleagues, but loyalty raises difficult questions. What is the point of loyalty? Should we be loyal to country, just as we are loyal to friends and family? Can the requirements of loyalty conflict with the requirements of morality? In this book, originally published in 2007, Simon Keller explores the varieties of loyalty and their psychological and ethical differences, and concludes that loyalty is an essential but fallible part of human life. He argues that grown children can be obliged to be loyal to their parents, that good friendship can sometimes conflict with moral and epistemic standards, and that patriotism is intimately linked with certain dangers and delusions. He goes on to build an approach to the ethics of loyalty that differs from standard communitarian and universalist accounts. His book will interest a wide range of readers in ethics and political philosophy.

General ethics --- Loyalty --- Conduct of life --- Constancy --- Loyalty. --- Respect. --- Deference --- Esteem --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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In the face of death, people often experience intense visual experiences. Our understanding of such phenomena has grown in recent years. For the first time, based on current research and personal reports, this study examines the different forms taken by such imagery in this unique realm of experience. The study illuminates their meaningfulness, and also explores their potential relevance for spiritual guidance.

Near-death experiences --- Dreams --- Religious aspects --- Experiences, Near-death --- 253:362.1 --- 253:362.1 Pastoraal voor zieken, ouderen en stervenden --- Pastoraal voor zieken, ouderen en stervenden --- Death, Apparent --- Death. --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Philosophy --- Dream visions. --- near death experience. --- oneiric experience. --- waking visions.

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Mysticism --- Albrecht, Carl

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