On Loyalty and Loyalties - Kleinig, John (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York City/ Brisbane, USA/ Australia)

This volume explores at length the contours of an important and troubling virtue -- its cognates, contrasts, and perversions; its strengths and weaknesses; its awkward relations with universal morality; its oppositional form and limits; as well as the ways in which it functions invarious associative connections, such as friendship and familial relations, organizations and professions.