Conclusion

Chapter 1 examined the philosophical literature on advising via six key questions: What is advice? Why take advice? Why give advice? How should one advise? What are the qualities of a good advisor? and What should the advice relationship be like? It also collected several largely unexamined questions along the way: Should advice be tailored to what an advisee can do? What does it mean for advice to be practical? How discretionary must advice be? and Can advice aim at rousing an advisee to action? This chapter presents the outputs of the theory of advising presented in previous chapters by succinctly expressing them as answers to these questions.