Title: Dependent rational animals
First published: 1999
Description: "The overall argument of this book presupposes the truth of certain contentious philosophical theses: that human identity is primarily an animal identity, that understanding the resemblance between human beings and some other types of intelligent animals is a necessary prerequisite for also understanding how they differ, that human flourishing requires the exercise of certain types of virtue, and that it is only within a certain type of local political community that those virtues can be developed and sustained. The latter part of this book is directed to the discussion and defence of these theses."--Jacket.
Subjects: Ethics, Virtues, Virtue and virtues, Vertus, Morale, Bj1012 .m326 1999, 170