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KMID : 1011120140080010081
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Bioethics Policy Studies
2014 Volume.8 No. 1 p.81 ~ p.99
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Human Vulnerability and Its Relevant Virtues: Focused on Alasdair MacIntyre’s Dependent Rational Animals
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Kim Soo-Jung
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Abstract
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Alasdair MacIntyre holds that understanding human animality is the source of morality in Dependent Rational Animals. He explains similarity and continuum of behaviors between intelligent human animals and intelligent non human animals. He argues that to recognize human vulnerability and dependency of human being in virtue of animal nature allows us to rediscover organic unity and wholeness as a person and eventually leads us to human flourishing.
This paper aims to examine the relationship among human animality, dependency, and rationality. First, it deals with similarity between nonhuman intelligent animals and human intelligent animals and finds origin of human morality in human animality. Second, it argues that the enlightenment which tries to find the foundation of human morality doomed to fail, since it denies the importance of human animality in human morality and claims for the separation of emotion and reason. Finally it explores MacIntyre’s presentation of the virtue of independence and the virtue of acknowledged dependence as necessary virtues which liberal individualistic society needs.
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KEYWORD
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Alasdair MacIntyre, Dependency, Rational Animal, Vulnerability, Virtue Ethics
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