🧩 Philosophy 6h ago · John Kleinig

Loyalty

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[Revised entry by John Kleinig on April 29, 2026.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
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 as a matter of his or her identity. Its paradigmatic expression is found in close friendship, to which loyalty is integral, but many other relationships and associations seek to encourage it as an aspect of affiliation or membership:

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