Dependent Rational Animals

Why Human Beings Need the Virtues

Paperback, 172 pages

Published by Duckworth.

ISBN:
978-0-7156-3860-6
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reviewed Dependent rational animals by Alasdair C. MacIntyre (The Paul Carus lecture series ;)

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Moral philosophy should reflect the fact that many parts of our life involve dependence on and embedding in social relationships. Reasonable short discussion on other social animal examples and on how we develop as rational practitioners in the context of virtues (categorized as either supporting "rational independence" or "acknowledged dependence"), but overall thin.

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Subjects

  • Ethics.
  • Virtues.