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050 1 4 _aHM 756
_bL138c 2003
100 1 _aLachs, John.
245 1 2 _aA community of individuals /
_cJohn Lachs.
260 _aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2003.
300 _a221 p. ;
_c24 cm.
440 4 _aThe Routledge American philosophy series
500 _aThis collection of philosophical essays discusses a range of key personal and social issues relevant to professionals and academics alike.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index.
505 _aIntellectuals 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.
650 0 _aCommunities
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aIndividualism.
650 0 _aPhilosophy, American.
650 4 _aComunidades.
650 4 _aFilosofĂ­a.
650 4 _aIndividualismo.
650 4 _aFilosofĂ­a americana.
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2003268750-d.html
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2003268750-b.html
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