Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the VirtuesOpen Court, 1999 M08 10 - 180 pages "MacIntyre--one of the foremost ethicists of the past half-century--makes a sustained argument for the cetnrality, in well-lived human lives, of both virtue and local communities of giving and receiving. He criticizes the mainstream of Western ethics, including his own previous position, for not taking seriously the dependent and animal sides of human nature, thereby overemphasizing the powers of reason and the pursuit of reason and the pursuit of autonomy. . . . This important work in ethics is essential for the professional philosopher and is highly readable for students at all levels and for thoughtful citizens." --Choice |
Contents
Can animals without language have beliefs? | |
How impoverished is the world of the nonhuman animal? | |
Vulnerability flourishing goods and good | |
How do we become independent practical reasoners? How do | |
Social relationships practical reasoning common goods | |
The virtues of acknowledged dependence | |
The political and social structured of the common good | |
Proxies friends truthfulness | |
Moral commitment and rational enquiry | |
Other editions - View all
Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues Alasdair C. MacIntyre Limited preview - 1999 |
Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues Alasdair MacIntyre No preview available - 2009 |
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