Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues - Softcover

Macintyre, Alasdair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715638602 ISBN 13: 9780715638606

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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Where should an account of the virtues begin? In "Dependent Rational Animals", Alasdair MacIntyre argues that we should begin with those facts of vulnerability and disability, and of consequent dependence on others, to which moral philosophers have generally given insufficient attention, and with the animal nature of human beings - that which exhibits their kinship to members of other intelligent species. He argues that it is by reference to these that we become able to understand the part played in our lives both by the virtues of independent practical reasoning and by the virtues of an acknowledged dependence on others.

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Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) was Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University, UK, and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His publications include After Virtue (1981), Whose Justice? Whose Rationality? (1988) and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0715638602
• ISBN 13: 9780715638606
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
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