Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue Studies in Ayn Rand's Normative Theory |
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| Editor:
| Gotthelf, Allan
Lennox, James G. |
| Series title: | Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8229-4400-3 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is a cultural phenomenon. Yet Rand's work has until recently received little serious attention from academics. This new series seeks a fuller scholarly understanding of this highly original and influential thinker. The chapters in this volume address the basis of her egoism in a virtue-centered normative ethics; her account of how moral norms in general are themselves based on a fundamental choice by an agent to value his own life; and...
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Philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is a cultural phenomenon. Yet Rand's work has until recently received little serious attention from academics. This new series seeks a fuller scholarly understanding of this highly original and influential thinker. The chapters in this volume address the basis of her egoism in a virtue-centered normative ethics; her account of how moral norms in general are themselves based on a fundamental choice by an agent to value his own life; and how her own approach to the foundations of ethics is to be compared and contrasted with familiar approaches in the analytic ethical tradition.