Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue by Allan Gotthelf

Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue by Allan Gotthelf

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Explores the work of philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand. It 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.

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Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue by Allan Gotthelf

Explores the work of philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand. It 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.
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ISBN 13 9780822944003
ISBN 10 0822944006
Title Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue
Author Allan Gotthelf
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Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
Year published 2010-11-30
Number of pages 240
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