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  • Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, trans. J. Solomon, in Jonathan Barnes, ed., The Complete Works of Aristotle, Vol. II (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1984), 1245b24, p. 1975; Kant, “Lecture on Friendship,” in Lectures on Ethics, trans. and ed. Louis Infield (New York: Harper and Row, 1963), and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, trans. James Ellington in Immanuel Kant: Ethical Philosophy, [2nd ed.] (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994).

  • See Lorraine Pangle, Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Richard Kraut, Aristotle on the Human Good (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1989); John Cooper, “Aristotle on Friendship,” in Amilie Rorty, ed., Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics (Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1980).

  • See Allan Wood, “Desire and Deception” and “Friendship,” in Kant’s Ethical Thought (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Rae Langton, “Duty and Desolation,” Philosophy 67 (1992); Silvestro Maucucci, “Moral Friendship in Kant,” Kant-Studien 90 (1999).

  • Kant, “Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View,” trans. and ed. Lewis Beck in Kant on History (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril Co., 1963). See Nancy Sherman, “The Shared Voyage,” in Making a Necessity of Virtue (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. William David Ross, in Richard McKeon, ed., The Basic Works of Aristotle (New York: Random House, 1941), 1169b28-1170a4, pp. 1088--1089; EE 1244b25-1245a10, pp. 1972-197 and 1245a29-36, pp. 1974--1975; Magna Moralia, trans. George Stock in William David Ross, ed., The Works of Aristotle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966), 1213a10-26, p. 1920.

  • Aristotle, Magna Moralia, 1213a10-26, p. 1920.

  • Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 1244b25, p. 1973.

  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1170a2-3, p. 1089; 1170b1-10, p. 1090.

  • Aristotle, Magna Moralia, 1213a16-20, p. 1920.

  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1169b34-5, p. 1089.

  • Cooper, op. cit., pp. 321--322.

  • Kraut, op. cit., pp. 142--143.

  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1170a1-4, p. 1089.

  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1105a26-b13, p. 956; 1114b28-9, p. 974. Cf. Aryeh Kosman, “Being Properly Affected: Virtues and Feelings in Aristotle’s Ethics,” in Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics, op. cit., pp. 103--115.

  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1166a29, p. 1082; 1170b7, p. 1090, and Eudemian Ethics, 1245a30, p. 1973.

  • Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 1245a35-6, p. 1973.

  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1156b7-14, p. 106; Eudemian Ethics, 1236b2-4, p. 1958.

  • Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 1245a31, p. 1974.

  • Aristotle, Magna Moralia, 1213a24-25, p. 1920.

  • Kant, Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, S47, p. 138.

  • Kant, Lectures on Ethics, p. 205, and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, S47, p. 138.

  • Kant, Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, S47, p. 138.

  • Kant, Lectures on Ethics, pp. 205--206.

  • Ibid., p. 206.

  • Ibid., p. 208.

  • Kant, “Letter to Maria von Herbert,” trans. Arnulf Zweig, in Kant: Philosophical Correspondence, 1759-1799 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967), p. 188.

  • Cf. Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, trans. Theodore Green and Hoyt Hudson (New York: Harper and Row, 1960), pp. 28--29.

  • Kant, Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, 47, p. 139; cf. Christine Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 199--200.

  • Kant, Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, § 47, p. 138.

  • Kant, Lectures on Ethics, pp. 205--206.

  • Kant, Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, § 47, 138.

  • Ibid., § 47, p. 137.

  • See Pangle, op. cit., pp. 183-193; Sherwin, op. cit.; Cooper, op. cit., pp. 331--333.

  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1169b11-17, p. 1088; 1170a4-9, p. 1089; 1177a35-1177b1, p. 1104.

  • Ibid., 1099b1-4, p. 945; 1159a27, p. 1067.

  • Ibid., 1169b17-21, p. 1088.

  • Ibid., 1155a5-6, p. 1058.

  • Kant, Lectures on Ethics, p. 205.

  • Ibid.

  • Ibid.

  • Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, op. cit., p. 28.

  • See Sherman, op. cit., pp. 230--231.

  • Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 1237b13-14, p. 1960.

  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1157a23-4, p. 1062.

  • Kant, Lectures on Ethics, p. 217, and Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, pp. 28-9.

  • I would like to thank Paula Gottlieb, Jean Keller, Jeff Johnson, Thomas Magnell, Carol Caraway, Madeleine Arseneault, Tasia Persson, and an anonymous referee for the Journal of Value Inquiry for helpful comments on earlier drafts. This paper has been presented at the 2002 Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association and at a Philosophy Department Colloquium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and I would also like to thank those present at both sessions for helpful comments and lively discussion.

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Veltman, A. Aristotle and Kant on Self-Disclosure in Friendship. J Value Inquiry 38, 225–239 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-004-9265-5

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