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

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

Alasdair MacIntyre
180 pages
Open Court
May 2001
Paperback
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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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