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- Title
Rand on Obligation and Value.
- Authors
Rasmussen, Douglas B.
- Abstract
Douglas B. Rasmussen examines, in this revised and extended version of his 1990 address to the Ayn Rand Society, whether Rand's ethics are best interpreted as dependent on a "pre-moral" choice. He argues that such an interpretation undercuts Rand's claim to provide a rational foundation for ethics. He suggests an alternative, neo-Aristotelian interpretation of Rand's ethics, which treats "man's survival qua man" as the telos of human choice and takes the obligation to achieve this ultimate end as the result of its being the good for human beings.
- Publication
Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Foundation), 2002, Vol 4, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
1526-1018
- Publication type
Academic Journal