Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues (Paul Carus Lectures) by Alasdair C. MacIntyre

Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues (Paul Carus Lectures)



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Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues (Paul Carus Lectures) Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Language: English
Page: 178
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0812693973, 9780812694529
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company

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Vulnerability and disability make dependence an ineluctable element of human existence. With clear, nuanced, and remarkably compelling justificatory reasoning, MacIntyre delineates personal and social forms of moral life that facilitate our flourishing in virtue of, rather than despite, human dependence. -- Anita Silvers, author of Disability, Difference, Discrimination

With characteristic originality and insight, Alasdair MacIntyre explores the nature of practical rationality in the light of our human vulnerability and mutual dependence. Two themes, arising from our animal nature, frame the discussion: the continuities between human beings and other species, and the pervasiveness of human disability. The argument of Dependent Rational Animals relies upon and helpfully illuminates some familiar motifs from MacIntyre: the continuing fertility of a broadly Aristotelian notion of the virtues and the limitations of both the modern nation-state and the family. This fascinating work is wonderfully accessible from beginning to end. It is a model of how profound and complex philosophical argument can be rendered available to a wider public. -- Jonathan Wolff, University College, London

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