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Author(s): Allan Gotthelf (ed.), James G. Lennox (ed.)
ISBN(s): 9780822944003, 0822944006
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Year: 2010
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Author: Allan Gotthelf, James G Lennox

Philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is a cultural phenomenon. Her books have sold more than twenty-five million copies, and countless individuals speak of her writings as having significantly influenced their lives. In spite of the popular interest in her ideas, or perhaps because of it, Rand’s work has, until recently, received little serious attention from academics. Though best known among philosophers for her strong support of egoism in ethics and capitalism in politics, there is an increasingly widespread awareness of both the range and the systematic character of Rand’s philosophic thought.

Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue examines central aspects of Ayn Rand’s ethical theory. Though her endorsement of ethical egoism is well known—one of her most familiar essay collections is The Virtue of Selfishness—the character of her egoism is not. Leading Rand scholars and specialists in ethical theory address issues such as: the basis of Rand’s 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.

Philosophers interested in the objectivity of value, in the way ethical theory is (and is not) virtue-based, and in acquiring a serious understanding of an egoistic moral theory worthy of attention will find much to consider here.

Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue is the first of a new series, developed in conjunction with the Ayn Rand Society, to offer a fuller scholarly understanding of this highly original and influential thinker. The Ayn Rand Society, an affiliated group of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, seeks to foster scholarly study by philosophers of the philosophical thought and writings of Ayn Rand.

Metaethics Egoism and Virtue Studies in Ayn Rand s Normative Theory 1st Table of contents:

  1. Reason, Choice, and the Ultimate End
  2. Reasoning about Ends: Life as a Value in Ayn Rand’s Ethics
  3. The Choice to Value
  4. Metaethics: Objectivist and Analytic
  5. The Foundations of Ethics: Objectivism and Analytic Philosophy
  6. Egoism and Eudaimonism: Replies to Khawaja
  7. Egoism and Virtue in Nietzsche and Rand
  8. Nietzsche and Rand as Virtuous Egoists
  9. Virtue and Sacrifice: Response to Swanton
  10. Author Meets Critics: Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics
  11. Rational Selves, Friends, and the Social Virtues
  12. Egoistic Relations with Others: Response to Cullyer
  13. Virtuous Egoism and Virtuous Altruism
  14. On Altruism, and on the Role of Virtues in Rand’s Egoism: Response to Swanton
  15. What Is Included in Virtue?
  16. The Primacy of Action in Virtue: Response to Hunt
  17. Uniform Abbreviations of Works

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