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March 07 2010

bentrem

"[T]o flourish, humans need to develop virtues of independent thought and acknowledged social dependence"

In "Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues" under "the conditions for human flourishing", Alasdair MacIntyre notes that, "The virtues of rational agency need for their adequate exercise to be accompanied by what I shall call thethe virtues of acknowledged dependency" including, as Carol Taylor points out in her "Health and Human Flourishing", includes "the attentive and affectionate regard for others".

Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues" By Alasdair MacIntyre at Google Books