Author: Ayn Rand
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1965
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Author: Ayn Rand
Publisher: Signet Book
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1964
ISBN-10: 0451113837
ISBN-13: 9780451113832
The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word "selfishness" is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual package-deal, which is responsible more than any other single factor, for the moral development of man.
Author: Ayn Rand
Publisher:
Total Pages: 151
Release: 1964
ISBN-10: OCLC:462335219
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Author: Ayn Rand
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1964
ISBN-10: OCLC:752595743
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Author: Twanna Collins
Publisher: Hyperink Inc
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2012-03-04
ISBN-10: 9781614640462
ISBN-13: 1614640467
Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick! ABOUT THE BOOK Ayn Rands work The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism didnt start out as a novel. What ultimately became The Virtue of Selfishness actually was started as a collection of essays. The bulk of these essays were originally published in The Objectivist Newsletter in 1964. Since its original publishing up until today, the book has been a source of discussion and debate among many scholars and casual readers alike. Since its publishing in 1964, The Virtue of Selfishness has been translated into numerous languages. Its content is still controversial and can spark heated conversations on issues that are as prevalent today as they were in Rands era. It is often stated that reading a book like The Virtue of Selfishness will help a person get a better perspective and understanding of other fiction works by Ayn Rand. In reading The Virtue of Selfishness the reader will gain a deeper understanding of the inner workings of her characters and be more comfortable with many of her philosophical works. MEET THE AUTHOR Twanna has a Business Degree from Michigan State University. She has been involved in copywriting on the internet since 2008. Her hobbies and interests include cooking, reading, writing, health/fitness, and herbal remedies. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK A man drowns Lets say that a man is in danger of drowning and you are the only one around who can help. The moral course of action would be to assist only if the danger to ones self is minimal. It is a sign of lowered self-esteem to deem a strangers life just as valuable as your own by risking yours to save theirs. This would not be the case if the drowning person were someone you loved deeply. In this scenario, risking your life to save this person is not seen as a sacrifice at all. The reason: because saving a loved one is rooted in a certain selfishness; no one wants to watch a loved one drown knowing they could have done something to prevent it from happening... Buy a copy to keep reading! CHAPTER OUTLINE Ayn Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness + About the Book + About the Author + Overall Summary + Chapter by Chapter Summary + ...and much more
Author: Ayn Rand
Publisher:
Total Pages: 15
Release: 1964
ISBN-10: OCLC:969584860
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Author: Nicholas Rescher
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1990
ISBN-10: 0804718113
ISBN-13: 9780804718110
Philosophical anthropology is the philosophical study of the conditions of human existence and the issues that confront people in the conduct of their everyday lives. This book surveys, from a contemplative, philosophical point of view, a wide variety of human-interest issues, including happiness, luck, aging, the meaning of life, optimism and pessimism, morality, and faith and belief. The author's deliberations blend historical, theoretical, and personal perspectives into philosophical appreciation of the human condition. The philosophers of Greek antiquity took philosophy to center around just this issue of intelligent living - of determining the nature of life under the guidance of reason. Such a perspective puts philosophical agenda - a position it contested with the philosophy of nature throughout classical antiquity. In more recent times, however, its prominence has declined - no doubt, the author suggests, because modern man's achievements have been more notable in the natural than in the human science.
Author: Allan Gotthelf
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2010-11-14
ISBN-10: 9780822977599
ISBN-13: 0822977591
Philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand (1905–1982) is a cultural phenomenon. Her books have sold more than 25 million copies, and countless individuals speak of her writings as having significantly influenced their lives. In spite of the popular interest in her ideas, or perhaps because of it, Rand’s work has until recently received little serious attention from academics. Though best known among philosophers for her strong support of egoism in ethics and capitalism in politics, there is an increasingly widespread awareness of both the range and the systematic character of Rand’s philosophic thought. This new series, developed in conjunction with the Ayn Rand Society, an affiliated group of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, seeks a fuller scholarly understanding of this highly original and influential thinker. The first volume starts not with the metaphysical and epistemological fundamentals of Rand’s thought, but with central aspects of her ethical theory. Though her endorsement of ethical egoism is well-known—one of her most familiar essay collections is The Virtue of Selfishness—the character of her egoism is not. 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. Philosophers interested in the objectivity of value, in the way ethical theory is (and is not) virtue-based, and in acquiring a serious understanding of an egoistic moral theory worthy of attention will find much to consider in this volume, which includes critical responses to several of its main essays.
Author: Barbara Maier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2010-11-03
ISBN-10: 9789048188673
ISBN-13: 9048188679
This book challenges the unchallenged methods in medicine, such as "evidence-based medicine," which claim to be, but often are not, scientific. It completes medical care by adding the comprehensive humanistic perspectives and philosophy of medicine. No specific or absolute recommendations are given regarding medical treatment, moral approaches, or legal advice. Given rather is discussion about each issue involved and the strongest arguments indicated. Each argument is subject to further critical analysis. This is the same position as with any philosophical, medical or scientific view. The argument that decision-making in medicine is inadequate unless grounded on a philosophy of medicine is not meant to include all of philosophy and every philosopher. On the contrary, it includes only sound, practical and humanistic philosophy and philosophers who are creative and critical thinkers and who have concerned themselves with the topics relevant to medicine. These would be those philosophers who engage in practical philosophy, such as the pragmatists, humanists, naturalists, and ordinary-language philosophers. A new definition of our own philosophy of life emerges and it is necessary to have one. Good lifestyle no longer means just abstaining from cigarettes, alcohol and getting exercise. It also means living a holistic life, which includes all of one's thinking, personality and actions. This book also includes new ways of thinking. In this regard the "Metaphorical Method" is explained, used, and exemplified in depth, for example in the chapters on care, egoism and altruism, letting die, etc.
Author: Robert White
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-04-01
ISBN-10: 9781498542647
ISBN-13: 1498542646
The Moral Case for Profit Maximization argues that profit maximization is moral when businessmen seek to maximize profit by creating goods or services that are of objective value. Traditionally, profit maximization has been defended on economic grounds. Profit, economists argue, incentivizes businessmen to produce goods and services. In this view, businessmen do not need to be virtuous as long as they deliver the goods. It challenges the traditional defense of profit maximization, arguing that profit maximization is morally ambitious because it requires businessmen to form normative abstractions and to cultivate a virtuous character. In so doing, the author also challenges the moral basis of corporate social responsibility. Proponents of CSR argue that businessmen can do good while doing well. This book argues that businessmen already do good by maximizing profit, drawing upon the histories of the wheel, the refrigerator, and the shipping container, as well as the biographies of J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison to demonstrate the role of values in the creation of material goods and the role of the virtues in value creation. The author challenges readers to rethink the relationship between profit, value, and virtue.
