Loyalty

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“Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.”

– Hannah Arendt

Loyalty is usually seen as a virtue, albeit a problematic one. It is constituted centrally by perseverance in an association to which a person has become intrinsically committed. Its paradigmatic expression is found in friendship, to which loyalty is integral, but many other relationships and associations seek to encourage it as an aspect of affiliation or membership: families expect it, organizations often demand it, and countries do what they can to foster it. (Read more …)

– “Loyalty” at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy