[Randex]Ayn Rand?s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist

[O-Land News Junkie]

Whether one is a fan or a detractor of Ayn Rand, the issues raised by this book are manifold and provocative. This book should force a debate of renewed vigor about what we mean by egoism, whether and how the egoism / altruism dichotomy should be applied within eudaimonistic ethical theories, and what our ethical theories imply about our political outlook. Smith provides us with a version of egoism that will need to be argued against by those who find it distasteful or misguided, rather than simply dismissed.

http://randex.org/index.php/weblog/ayn_ran...irtuous_egoist/

[Robert Campbell]

Helen Cullyer, the author of that brief review, is going to be talking about Tara Smith's book at the Ayn Rand Society meeting (in Washington, DC, end of this month).

I plan to be there, so I may be able to post my impressions later on.

Robert Campbell

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Robert,

I moved this from the news feeds since you made a comment. Your comment would have soon been buried over there.

If anyone makes a comment on a news feed, I will move it to this section.

I will be interested in reading your impressions of Cullyer's talk. It is refreshing to read something from a non-ARI source about Smith's book.

Michael