This is

This is Philosophy Bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warburton.

This episode of Philosophy Bites was sponsored by the Examining Ethics Podcast

from the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePaul University.

You can subscribe to examining ethics on iTunes or listen to episodes at examining ethics.org. Most of us have friends and for most of us

friendship in riches life.

According to the eminent philosopher Philip Pettit,

a regular and always welcome friend on philosophy bites,

certain goods like friendship possess a particular characteristic.

They are robustly demanding.

Philip Pettit, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you.

Glad to be here.

The topic we're going to discuss today is robustly demanding goods.

What is a robustly demanding good? Love is... Good.

Love is one, friendship is another.

Various of the virtues and the like respect, for example, are honestly.

They're all robustly demanding goods.

So what makes them robustly demanding goods.

So what makes them robustly demanding is the following.

If I am to give you, say, take the last one, I'm to give you respect,

then it's not enough that I treat you respectfully in a given instance because I might be doing that simply because it suits me, it's in my interest.

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