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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811130503321

Autore

Lachs John

Titolo

A community of individuals / / John Lachs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-72823-9

1-315-88097-0

1-134-72816-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Routledge American Philosophy Series

Disciplina

307.01

Soggetti

Communities - Philosophy

Individualism

Philosophy, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Dedication; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Intellectuals and Courage; 1. Intellectuals and Courage; 2. Reflections on Philosophy; 3. Teaching as a Calling; 4. Education in the Twenty-First Century; Part II. Issues for Individuals; 5. What Humans Did Not Make; 6. Valuational Species; 7. Improving Life; 8. Transcendence in Philosophy and in Everyday Life; 9. The Vague Hope of Immortality; Part III. Problems for Communities; 10. Both Better Off and Better: Moral Progress amid Continuing Carnage; 11. The Significance of Purposes for Bioethics

12. Grand Dreams of Perfect People13. Researchers and Their Subjects as Neighbors; 14. Dying Old as a Social Problem; Part IV. American Philosophers; 15. The Insignificance of Individuals; 16. Santayana as Pragmatist; 17. Neoplatonic Elements in the Spiritual Life; 18. Peirce: Inquiry as Social Life; 19. Peirce and Santayana on Purposes; 20. Metaphysics and the Social Construction of Human Nature; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.