THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ALASDAIR MACINTYRE’S CLAIMS OF DEPENDENT RATIONAL ANIMALS

This paper engages with the key philosophical claims of Alalsdair MacIntyre’s Dependent Rational Animals. I argue that despite MacIntyre’s convincing accounts of an alternative Aristotelian social ontology, and the political structures of the common, his emphasis on the politics of communal self-def...

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Main Author: Andrius Bielskis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University Press 2012-01-01
Series:Problemos
Online Access:http://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/728