Lachs, John. <br/><br/>
A community of individuals / 
John Lachs. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2003. 
 - 221 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - The Routledge American philosophy series .
<br/><br/> This collection of philosophical essays discusses a range of key personal and social issues relevant to professionals and academics alike. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index. 
<br/><br/>Intellectuals and courage -- Reflections on philosophy -- Teaching as a calling --  Education in the twenty-first century -- What humans did not make -- Valuational species -- Improving life -- Transcendence in philosophy and everyday life -- The vague hope of immortality -- Both better off and better : moral progress amid continuing carnage -- The significance of purposes for bioethics -- Grand dreams of perfect people -- Researchers and their subjects as neighbors -- Dying old as a social problem -- The insignificance of individuals -- Santayana as pragmatist --  Neoplatonic elements in the spiritual life -- Peirce : inquiry as social life -- Peirce and Santayana on purposes -- Metaphysics and the social construction of human nature. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415941725 0415941733 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003268750 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communities--Philosophy.<br/>Individualism.<br/>Philosophy, American.<br/>Comunidades.<br/>Filosofía.<br/>Individualismo.<br/>Filosofía americana.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM 756  / L138c 2003