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Author MacIntyre, Alasdair C.

Title Dependent rational animals : why human beings need the virtues / Alasdair MacIntyre.

Publication Info. Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, [1999]
©1999

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  BJ1012 .M326 1999    Available  ---
Description xiii, 172 pages ; 24 cm.
Series The Paul Carus lecture series ; 20
Paul Carus lectures ; 20th ser.
Note Includes index.
Contents Vulnerability, dependence, animality -- Humans as contrasted with, humans as included in the class of animals -- The intelligence of dolphins -- Can animals without language have beliefs? -- How impoverished is the world of the nonhuman animal? -- Reasons for action -- Vulnerability, flourishing, goods, and 'good' -- How do we become independent practical reasoners? How do the virtues make this possible? -- Social relationships, practical reasoning, common goods, and individual goods -- The virtues of acknowledged dependence -- The political and social structures of the common good -- Proxies, friends, truthfulness -- Moral commitment and rational enquiry.
Subject Ethics.
Ethics.
Virtues.
Virtues.
ISBN 0812693973 alkaline paper