02114cam a2200397 a 4500 116226 20230410115820.0 030307s2003 nyu b 001 0 eng d 13114570 2003268750 0415941725 0415941733 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocm51442548 PIT PIT DLC lccopycat HM 756 L138c 2003 Lachs, John. A community of individuals / John Lachs. New York : Routledge, 2003. 221 p. ; 24 cm. The Routledge American philosophy series 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. Communities Philosophy. Individualism. Philosophy, American. Comunidades. Filosofía. Individualismo. Filosofía americana. Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2003268750-d.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2003268750-b.html lcc bk PP 48525 48525 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 HM 756 L138c 2003 00000110007 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk