Metaethics, Egoism, And Virtue: Studies In Ayn Rand'S Normative Theory (Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies)

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.

• | Author: Allan Gotthelf|James G. Lennox
• | Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0822962721
• | ISBN-13: 9780822962724