Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues (The Paul Carus Lectures)
In Dependent Rational Animals, Alasdair MacIntyre examines why human beings, understood as dependent rational animals, require the virtues. Presented as the Paul Carus Lectures, this philosophical work considers the connections between dependence, rationality, and moral character.
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Dependent Rational Animals explores the relationship between human dependence, rationality, and the virtues.
Drawing on the Paul Carus Lectures, Alasdair MacIntyre presents a philosophical examination of why human beings need virtues.
The book considers human life through the connected themes identified in its title: dependence, rational agency, and moral character.
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