...this argument should, of course, stop here. But I am convinced that there is a lot more to be said. human capacities in society. The claim is that living...rationality, in some sense of this property, or of becoming a moral agent in the full sense of the term, or of becoming a fully responsible, autonomous being. These...

...social nature of man is not just that men cannot physically survive alone, but much more that they could only develop their characteristically human capacities in society. The claim is that living in a society is a necessary condition of the development of rationality, in some sense of this property,...

...social nature of man is not just that men cannot physically survive alone, but much more that they could only develop their characteristically human capacities in society. The claim is that living in a society is a necessary condition of the development of rationality, in some sense of this property,...

...instance, that people "can only develop their characteristically human capacities in society. . . . living in society is a necessary condition of the development of rationality ... or of becoming a moral agent."134 Indeed, the bearer of the liberal rights Locke champions could...

...EKplication Charles Taylor (1985, p. 191) offers a contemporary account of what the holist thesis is. The claim is that living in society is a necessary...rationality, in some sense of this property, or of becoming a moral agent in the full sense of the term, or of becoming a fully responsible, autonomous being. These...

...they only develop their characteristically human capacities in society. The claim is that living in a society is a necessary condition of the development...rationality, in some sense of this property, or of becoming a moral agent in the full sense of the term, or of becoming a fully responsible autonomous being. Or,...

...nature (of human beings) is not just that they cannot physically survive alone, but much more that they only develop their characteristically human capacities in society. The claim is that living in a society is a necessary condition of the development of rationality, in some sense of this property,...

...develop their characteristically human capacities only in society. As Charles Taylor formulates it: 'The claim is that living in society is a necessary condition of the development of rationality ... or of becoming a moral agent in the full sense of the term, or of becoming a fully responsible,...