Friendship as Moral Experience

Ethnographic dimensions and ethical reflections

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https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.124709

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Building upon some early observations regarding the place of friendship in fieldwork in the writings of George Devereux and Clifford Geertz, the limits and possibilities of a friendship-based approach to ethnography are critically investigated by means of a phenomenology of moral experience. Such an effort brings to light the various ways that friendship may potentiate an ethical orientation to the concrete complex existence of others that resists reductive forms of closure and typification.

Keywords: friendship, morality, experience, phenomenology

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2014-01-01

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Vol. 39 No. 1 (2014): Special Issue: Friendship, Morality, and Experience

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Friendship as Moral Experience: Ethnographic dimensions and ethical reflections. (2014). Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 39(1), 68-80. https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.124709