Name a limited shared result, distinguish conditions from hopes, define rights to choose and reconsider agreement when scope changes.
Questions explored
Must everyone want a common undertaking identically?
No. A shared subject and agreed boundaries need to be intelligible; personal hopes may differ.
Can friendliness include objection?
Yes. Connect the objection with a particular condition or consequence; affability need not mean ingratiation.
Does earlier agreement permit expanding a project?
Not automatically. Compare changed duration, use or obligations with earlier boundaries, and seek new agreement where they change.
Key distinctions
A shared result can be limited despite differing personal motives. (United Wisdom original editorial argument; bounded historical philosophical comparison, not empirical evidence)
Expected benefit creates no right to every use of another person’s material. (United Wisdom original editorial argument; bounded historical philosophical comparison, not empirical evidence)
Friendliness preserves substantive objection and defined rights to choose. (United Wisdom original editorial argument; bounded historical philosophical comparison, not empirical evidence)
Expansion and departure require returning to earlier agreement’s boundaries and preserving accurate contributions. (United Wisdom original editorial argument; bounded historical philosophical comparison, not empirical evidence)
Limits of interpretation
- Ordinary cooperation; not legal assessment or a guarantee of successful negotiation.
- The oral-history room is hypothetical, not an experiment or the authors’ real case.
- Aristotelian ethics and the Confucian ideal remain distinct; a common project requires neither complete friendship nor one doctrine.
Sources
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII — Aristotle; W. D. Ross translation
Selected complete continuous VIII.3, VIII.9 and VIII.13 actually read before writing; displayed author/translator metadata read
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- The Analects, XIII.23–25 — Confucius; James Legge translation
Complete selected XIII.23–25 and edition note actually read before writing; catalogue release 2002-07-01/update 2021-01-08 and US rights metadata read
Source use: PUBLIC_DOMAIN_US_NON_US_UNKNOWN