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A community of individuals / / John Lachs



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Autore: Lachs John Visualizza persona
Titolo: A community of individuals / / John Lachs Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
Disciplina: 307.01
Soggetto topico: Communities - Philosophy
Individualism
Philosophy, American
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.
Titolo autorizzato: A community of individuals  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-72823-9
1-315-88097-0
1-134-72816-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811130503321
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Serie: Routledge American philosophy series.