TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lachs,John
TI  - A community of individuals
SN  - 0415941725
AV  - HM 756 L138c 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Communities
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Individualism
KW  - Philosophy, American
KW  - Comunidades
KW  - Filosofía
KW  - Individualismo
KW  - Filosofía americana
N1  - This collection of philosophical essays discusses a range of key personal and social issues relevant to professionals and academics alike; Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2003268750-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2003268750-b.html
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