The Ethics of Relationships Broadening the Scope

Monika Betzler, Chair for Practical Philosophy and Ethics, Faculty for Philosophy, Theory of Science and Religious Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU),Jörg Löschke, Professor of Practical Philosophy, Institute for Philosophy, University of Stuttgart

Monika Betzler holds the Chair for Practical Philosophy and Ethics at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. She has also held visiting positions at Lund University, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Vienna University, Tulane University, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. Before joining the department at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Betzler was Full Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Bern. She specializes in moral psychology, normative ethics, and normativity more generally. She is currently working on the ethics of personal relationships, the normative significance of personal projects, and empathy as a normative capacity. Her most recent publications have appeared in The Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, the Journal for Applied Philosophy, and The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.



Jörg Löschke holds the Chair for Practical Philosophy at the University of Stuttgart. He has taught at the University of Zurich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Bern, and Bonn University. Löschke has previously held visiting positions at Princeton University, the University of Washington, and Florida State University. His research focuses on normative ethics, applied ethics, and the philosophy of normativity. At present, he is working on the ethics of personal relationships, relationships with AI, and on the consequentialism/non-consequentialism divide. His work has appeared in journals such as Philosophical Studies, European Journal of Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Introduction, Monika Betzler and Jörg Löschke1. The Relationship with Self, Simon Keller2. Sibling Relationships, Jonathan Seglow3. Friendship and Romantic Relationships: Reflections on a Neglected Difference, Natasha McKeever4. The Wrongs of Friendship, Elizabeth Brake5. Post-Divorce Duties: What We Owe Ourselves and Our Exes as Former Partners, Monika Betzler6. The Relationship between Victim and Perpetrator, Luke Russell7. The Enmity Relationship as Justified Negative Partiality, Benjamin Lange and Joshua Brandt8. Neighbours, Kimberley Brownlee and Adam Neal9. Relations between Colleagues: Equal Respect and Unequal Epistemic Authority, Lisa Herzog10. What's Valuable in the Student-Teacher Relationship?, Harry Brighouse11. Ethics of Parasocial Relationships, Alfred Archer and Catherine Robb12. Sharing Our Lives with Other Species: The Nature of Our Relationships with Our Animal Companions, Diane Jeske13. A New Kind of Relationship? Robots, Humans, and the Good Life, Jörg Löschke