PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture : Ayn Rand and Egoism

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20 Jan 2012

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Objectivism: meaning a philosophy based on supposed objective reality . Reason perceives this world and wants to put forward a morality supposedly based on reason instead of faith . Wants to challenge moral code of altruism that man must live for others (which is, supposedly, the current day morality, because supposedly, the all of a man s life is lived for others). She thinks man is entitled to his own happiness and must achieve it by himself. Every person is an end in and of himself (kind of kantian) Your life as your motive and goal of action. It doesn t necessarily follow that we would never help other people, its merely that we wouldn t help other people if helping wasn t a benefit to us. Common sense morality: balance (how?) our interests against the interests of others. Rachel s response to rand: at most her view refutes extreme altruism.

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