Tara Smith

Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics

The Virtuous Egoist

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ayn Rand is well known for advocating egoism, but the substance of that egoisms instruction is rarely understood. Far from representing the rejection of morality, selfishness, in Rands view, actually demands the practice of a systematic code of ethics. This book explains the fundamental virtues that Rand considers vital for a person to achieve their objective well-being: rationality, honesty, independence, justice, integrity, productiveness, and pride. Tara Smith examines what each of these virtues consists of, why it is a virtue, and what it demands of a person in practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9780521860505
• ISBN-10: 0521860504
• Artikelnr.: 21191226

Autorenporträt

Tara Smith is Professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Moral Rights and Political Freedom and Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality, and has contributed to such journals as The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Social Philosophy and Policy, and Law and Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Rational egoism: a profile of its foundations and basic character
3. The master virtue: rationality
4. Honesty
5. Independence
6. Justice
7. Integrity
8. Productiveness
9. Pride
10. Implications for certain conventional virtues: charity, generosity, kindness, temperance.