ABSTRACT

Cathy Mason (2020 Mason, C. (2020) “On the Basis of Friendship” Inquiry. [Google Scholar]) argues – against my position in Phelan (2019 Phelan, M. (2019) “Rethinking Friendship” Inquiry.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) – that significant norm-manipulation is unnecessary for friendship. Instead, she holds that norm manipulation is a, perhaps omnipresent, causal result of the very feature I deny as necessary to friendship: mutual caring or love. Mason’s counter-examples allow for further explication of the norm-manipulation view of friendship. However, they do not constitute a compelling challenge to that view, because they do not seem to involve collaborative norm manipulation at all. Instead, they are better described as cases in which people come to be subject to established cultural norms they were not previously subject to, because they voluntarily come to fall under a distinctive relationship relative to one another.

摘要

凯茜·梅森（2020 年） Mason, C.（2020 年）“基于友谊”调查。 [Google Scholar] ) 反对我在 Phelan 的立场 (2019) Phelan, M. ( 2019 ) “重新思考友谊”调查。[Taylor & Francis Online]  , [Google Scholar]) – 重要的规范操作对于友谊来说是不必要的。相反，她认为规范操纵是我否认友谊所必需的特征的一种，也许无所不在的因果结果：相互关心或爱。梅森的反例可以进一步解释友谊的规范操纵观点。然而，它们并不构成对该观点的令人信服的挑战，因为它们似乎根本不涉及协作规范操纵。相反，它们被更好地描述为人们开始受制于他们以前不受制于既定的文化规范的情况，因为他们自愿地处于一种相对于彼此的独特关系中。