Dependent Rational Animals

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Dependent Rational Animals is a philosophical work by Alasdair MacIntyre that argues for an ethics grounded in human vulnerability, dependence, and our nature as rational, social animals.

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instanceOf book
arguesAgainst abstract accounts of rational agency
autonomous individualism in ethics
arguesFor conception of humans as dependent rational animals
ethics grounded in human dependence
ethics grounded in human vulnerability
author Alasdair MacIntyre NERFINISHED
continuesArgumentFrom After Virtue NERFINISHED
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry NERFINISHED
Whose Justice? Which Rationality? NERFINISHED
emphasizes continuities between humans and other animals
embodied and social character of rationality
importance of care and dependency relations
role of communities in moral formation
focusesOn conditions for the exercise of rational agency
moral significance of human and animal vulnerabilities
social and institutional support for the virtues
genre ethics
philosophy
hasKeyConcept dependent rational animal
narrative unity of a life
practices of giving and receiving care
virtues of acknowledged dependence
influencedBy Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas NERFINISHED
contemporary disability studies
language English
mainTopic animality
disability and dependence
human dependence
human nature
human vulnerability
moral philosophy
practical rationality
social practices
virtue ethics
philosophicalTradition Aristotelianism NERFINISHED
Thomism NERFINISHED
proposes ethics attentive to disability, childhood, and old age
revised account of the virtues
relatedWork After Virtue NERFINISHED
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry NERFINISHED
Whose Justice? Which Rationality? NERFINISHED
setsInContext human rationality within animal life-forms

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Alasdair MacIntyre notableWork Dependent Rational Animals