January, 2010

Yes, We Can Get Along — and We Can Even Agree Quite a Bit!

by Neera K. Badhwar
The Conversation
January 29th, 2010

Thanks to Doug, Roderick, and Mike for further food for thought. Starting with the most recent: Mike is right that you can’t go from “Living things face an alternative of existence or non-existence” to ethical egoism. But of course Rand introduces a whole lot of other premises to get there: all living things, including the human [...]

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Clarifying What Hardly Anyone Would Find Plausible

by Michael Huemer
The Conversation
January 29th, 2010

I can’t dispute with Neera about what she finds initially plausible. But I want to clarify what I thought hardly anyone would find plausible. I didn’t mean neo-Aristotelian egoism per se. I meant the argument in “The Objectivist Ethics” that, as I think, starts from “Living things face an alternative of existence or non-existence,” and [...]

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