We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Egoism and Prudent Predation.
- Authors
Huemer, Michael
- Abstract
Huemer responds to Michael Young's argument that an ethical egoist should not embrace prudent predation because accepting a principle of prudent predation has serious negative consequences over and above the consequences of individual predatory acts. In addition, he addresses the advantages Young claims for an agent-relative conception of value over an agent-neutral one. He finds that the agent-relative conception does not clearly have any of the advantages Young names, and that some paradigmatic uses of the concept of value are agent-neutral.
- Publication
Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Foundation), 2004, Vol 5, Issue 2, p457
- ISSN
1526-1018
- Publication type
Academic Journal