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Kinship and intimacy.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
ISSN
1890-4009
Abstract
We think about personal relationships in two distinct ways. The first focuses on relationships between blood relatives: parents and their children, siblings, and perhaps first cousins. The second focuses on intimacy: relationships where each individual is honest to and trusting of the other; each cares for the other and seeks the other’s company. In this article I ask how these two conceptions are, can be, or should be linked. Should we strive to make all relationships with kin intimate? Even if the answer is a qualified “No,” does that mean relationships with kin are not valuable? I offer some tentative answers to these questions. Despite its limitations, I hope this provides a framework from which future exploration of these issues might profitably begin.
Language
en_US
Publisher
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet. Programme for Applied Ethics
Recommended Citation
LaFollette, H. (2017). Kinship and intimacy. Etikk i praksis. Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 11(1), 33–40. doi: 10.5324/eip.v11i1.2244
Creative Commons License
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Comments
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