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*Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand* [audio-book version]

Audio version of my 42-page journal article “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.” Table of Contents: Part One: On Critiquing Altruism [MP3] [YouTube] [64 minutes] Three Nietzsches and Ayn RandSome Intellectuals on Nietzsche and RandEgoism, altruism, and “selfishness”A Nietzschean sketch: * God is dead * Nihilism’s symptoms * Two bio-psychological types * Psychology and morality * […]

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Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics” [Atlas Intellectuals]

In this unit of our course on Objectivity we feature Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics. Rand was world-famous as the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged when a collection of essays entitled The Virtue of Selfishness was published in 1964. In the opening essay, Rand presents a sustained argument for her ethic of rational self-interest. The full course on Objectivity: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/objectivity.

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Egoism versus the false alternative of altruism or predation

Stephen Hicks contrasts egoism with both altruism and predation. This is from Part 12 of his Philosophy of Education course. Previous: Individualism: self-responsible living and the virtues. Next: Optimism: philosophy and history. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.

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