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Loyalty

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July 18, 2010
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Loyalty is usually reckoned to be an important virtue; even loyalty to lost causes is often admired.  But loyalty to evil causes is no virtue.  To whom and what should one be loyal?  When is loyalty a virtue?  When is it wrong?  And when is it stupid?  Ken and John welcome back poet and philosopher Troy Jollimore, author of Friendship and Agent-Relative Morality.

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Troy Jollimore, Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Chico

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