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Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue

Studies in Ayn Rand's Normative Theory

Herausgeber: Gotthelf, Allan; Lennox, James G

Beschreibung

Ayn 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. This volume addresses the basis of her egoism in a virtue-centred 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.

Autor

Allan Gotthelf is a visiting professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey and has taught on a visiting basis at Swarthmore, Oxford, Georgetown, Tokyo Metropolitan, and the University of Texas at Austin. Gotthelf is the author of On Ayn Rand and Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology (forthcoming), and is coeditor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology. James G. Lennox is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals I-IV, and Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science. Lennox is coeditor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology; Self-motion from Aristotle to Newton; and Concepts, Theories and Rationality in the Biological Sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780822962724
• ISBN-10: 0822962721
• Artikelnr.: 38605951