02985oam 2200673I 450 991078681420332120230617024043.01-134-72823-91-315-88097-01-134-72816-610.4324/9781315880976 (CKB)3710000000106285(EBL)1683674(SSID)ssj0001195181(PQKBManifestationID)12533848(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001195181(PQKBWorkID)11156615(PQKB)10516945(MiAaPQ)EBC1683674(Au-PeEL)EBL1683674(CaPaEBR)ebr10870110(CaONFJC)MIL603022(OCoLC)879074594(OCoLC)879454122(FINmELB)ELB131387(EXLCZ)99371000000010628520130331d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA community of individuals /John LachsNew York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (230 p.)Routledge American Philosophy SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-94173-3 0-415-94172-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Bioethics12. 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; IndexFirst published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Routledge American philosophy series.CommunitiesPhilosophyIndividualismPhilosophy, AmericanCommunitiesPhilosophy.Individualism.Philosophy, American.307.01Lachs John.186310MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786814203321A community of individuals3705810UNINA