Greg Salmieri
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Elucidations · Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand's moral philosophy · 15 Jul 2015
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There's no truth, whatever I feel is right, but also philosophical theories that purported to be rational, but that she thought boiled down to accepting some arbitrary emotional commitments and reasoning from them.
And she had a lot to say about these issues.
I don't think we'll spend much time talking about epistemology, but I
Yeah.
In ethics she is an ethical egoist, which means that she believes that
the ultimate foundation of action, one's ultimate goals in acting should be to benefit oneself, in particular to live in the way that will promote one's own life, so that one's ultimate goal should be one's own survival and happiness.
And we could talk about the relation between those.
And the standard by which you gauge what actions will promote your survival and happiness is the standard of human life, man's life, what's required for a man to survive and flourish.
And in politics she thought this entailed what she called laissez-faire capitalism.
She described herself as a radical for capitalism.
So free markets, a government that's limited to the role of protecting individual rights.
in aesthetics, which she identified as the fifth branch of philosophy, other than the four I've been through so far, she had a a view of the function and purpose of art and on the basis of it defended what she called romantic realism as a school of art.
It's primarily Atlas Shrugged that has long speeches in it.
At one point a sixty page oration, which is in effect a presentation of a whole philosophical system.
Most of what you get in her novels that one might think of as more treatise like are very philosophical conversations between a few of the characters.
There's something unique about her way of writing.
She has a a very particular style.
She didn't see the novels as didactic.
She saw them as primarily novels that their primary value was artistic.
But the plots in the novels turn on philosophical issues.
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