Ritam: Aristotle seems to set a very high bar for having a virtue friend. I think the moralizing element is quite problematic, at least from my perspective in terms of how we actually have friendships in the modern world. So i completely agree with you that i think virtue friendship is very hard to meet. And part of that is because it does have a lot of moralizing element to it.
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Can we move beyond the Aristotelian account of friendship when thinking about our relationships with robots? Can we hate robots? In this episode, I talk to Helen Ryland about these topics. Helen is a UK-based philosopher. She completed her PhD in Philosophy in 2020 at the University of Birmingham. She now works as an Associate Lecturer for The Open University. Her work examines human-robot relationships, video game ethics, and the personhood and moral status of marginal cases of human rights (e.g., subjects with dementia, nonhuman animals, and robots).
