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

by Alasdair MacIntyre

Series: Paul Carus Lectures (1997)

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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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"MacIntyre should be commended for not only helping to inaugurate virtue ethics in 1981, but for now challenging virtue ethics to be more human, attentive to the life-form of our animal species."

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