{"id":1900,"date":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2009\/01\/12\/kill-me-and-save-yourself-how-friendship-affects-morality\/"},"modified":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"kill-me-and-save-yourself-how-friendship-affects-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2009\/01\/12\/kill-me-and-save-yourself-how-friendship-affects-morality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKill Me and Save Yourself!\u201d How Friendship Affects Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aims<br \/>\nIn my project I will discuss how the relationship between friends affects our ability to make objective moral decisions. In doing so I hope to clarify some of the philosophical positions on friendship and assess my own views philosophically in order to attain whether moral theories should devote specific attention to this idea.  <\/p>\n<p>Object<br \/>\nThe object for my project is the documentary film \u201cTouching the Void\u201d. This film tells the story of two friends who set out to climb the previously un-summited west face of \u201cSiula Grande\u201d in the Peruvian mountains. In doing so both friends were plunged into a life and death struggle and one was forced to make an arduous decision to end his friend\u2019s life.  <\/p>\n<p>Territory<br \/>\nThe philosophers I will use in my project are;<br \/>\n\u2022 Aristotle, who writes explicitly on the conditions of complete friendship in his book<br \/>\n\u201cNicomachean Ethics\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 Hegel, most importantly his concept of recognition and how that is affected by<br \/>\nfriendship and how this in turn affects his moral theory<br \/>\n\u2022 Hobbes, the idea of rational egoism and how friendship is affected by this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Young, 2009, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540,22,128],"tags":[62,563,37],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-540","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-cinema","tag-friendship","tag-morality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}