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Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues First Trade Paper Edition
Author(s): Alasdair MacIntyre (Author)
- Publisher: Open Court
- Publication Date: May 18, 2001
- Edition: First Trade Paper
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 081269452X
- ISBN-13: 9780812694529
Book Description
To flourish, humans need to develop virtues of independent thought and acknowledged social dependence. In this book, a leading moral philosopher presents a comparison of humans to other animals and explores the impact of these virtues.
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Review
This book represents a “revised and expanded version” of the 20th installment of the prestigious Paul Carus Lectures. — International Studies in Philosophy, 2005
