Metaethics, egoism, and virtue : studies in Ayn Rand's normative theory
Allan Gotthelf (Editor), James G. Lennox (Editor)
"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."--Publisher description
Print Book, English, ©2011
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., ©2011