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Dependent Rational Animals

Dependent Rational Animals By Alasdair MacIntyre, Duckworth, London, 1999, £14.95, 172 pages Dependent Rational Animals is based on lectures delivered to the American Philosophical Association in 1997. In these, MacIntyre set out to address two main questions: ‘why is it important for us to attend to and to understand what human beings have in common with members of other intelligent animal species?’ and ‘what makes attention to human vulnerability and disability important for moral philosophers?’. These are questions that he feels have received insufficient attention within moral philosophy. The work is offered as both an extension and a correction to the earlier ideas expressed in earlier books. MacIntyre's starting point is the recognition that human beings are vulnerable to many kinds of ills and afflictions and there will be times when we depend on others for our survival and our flourishing. This dependence is most marked in childhood and old age, but also occurs at other times. The neglect of these features of human existence in philosophy has led to the consideration of sufferers as possible subjects of benevolence, a case of ‘them and us’, where ‘us’ represents a separate class. The disabled (in the broadest sense) are seen as separate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nursing Philosophy Wiley

Dependent Rational Animals

Wainwright, Paul
Nursing Philosophy , Volume 1 (1) – Jul 1, 2000
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© Blackwell Science Ltd 2000 Nursing Philosophy , 1 , pp. 82–85
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1466-7681
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1466-769X
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10.1046/j.1466-769x.2000.005.3.x
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By Alasdair MacIntyre, Duckworth, London, 1999, £14.95, 172 pages Dependent Rational Animals is based on lectures delivered to the American Philosophical Association in 1997. In these, MacIntyre set out to address two main questions: ‘why is it important for us to attend to and to understand what human beings have in common with members of other intelligent animal species?’ and ‘what makes attention to human vulnerability and disability important for moral philosophers?’. These are questions that he feels have received insufficient attention within moral philosophy. The work is offered as both an extension and a correction to the earlier ideas expressed in earlier books. MacIntyre's starting point is the recognition that human beings are vulnerable to many kinds of ills and afflictions and there will be times when we depend on others for our survival and our flourishing. This dependence is most marked in childhood and old age, but also occurs at other times. The neglect of these features of human existence in philosophy has led to the consideration of sufferers as possible subjects of benevolence, a case of ‘them and us’, where ‘us’ represents a separate class. The disabled (in the broadest sense) are seen as separate

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