Dependent Rational Animals

Name: Dependent Rational Animals
Author: Alasdair MacIntyre

by Alasdair MacIntyre

Argument that human flourishing requires interdependence, not rational autonomy

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Alasdair MacIntyre

Scottish philosopher whose After Virtue argued that modern moral philosophy has lost the Aristotelian teleological framework that gives ethics coherence. He proposed virtue ethics as an alternative to both Kantian deontology and Benthamite utilitarianism. He converted to Catholicism in 1983.

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