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Friendship as characterological and educational

Kristján Kristjánsson: Friendship for virtue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp, £55.00 HB

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Kim, B.JH. Friendship as characterological and educational. Metascience 32, 231–234 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-023-00844-x

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