Greg Salmieri

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Elucidations · Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand's moral philosophy · 15 Jul 2015 podcast

And usually, I think in all cases, certainly in the app in Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead, the plot resolutions turn on one or more of the characters changing their mind on a central issue where they've come to change their mind through interaction with the other characters, not primarily through the conversation.

with the other characters, but through seeing how the different motives and ideas on which people were acting played out over the course of the story.

And the speeches and philosophical conversations are very much part of the plot in that they occur where they do as speech acts, so to speak, motivated by their place in the action, and then which do have causal outputs in the rest of the plot of the story.

So they aren't just kind of interjections into the novels, and I think they're not best read abstracted from the novel.

I think they make a lot more.

more sense and are a lot more compelling when read in context of the novel.

Although you can I mean I don't mean to say you can't read them excerpted, they're I think good speeches, but they are a lot more powerful and better supported when read in situ.

But that said they're it's unusual and it's an unusual genre of writing and it takes some getting used to to stop at the climax of a story when you don't know what the love interest is gonna be resolved and someone might die and yet suddenly there's a sixty page speech that starts with a long discussion of metaphysics.

Um I think there were sort of two questions in this question.

One is I said before that she's an ethical egoist.

That means that she thinks one ought to be acting to promote one's self-interest.

So that in itself is a very controversial position, and we could think about how would anyone think that?

Is a view like that even really immorality?

So that's one part of the question.

I think we should talk about that.

A second part is of the people who do uh have held some kind of egoism or limited egoism.

The few that there are in philosophy.

have with one or two exceptions been very reluctant to use the term selfish or whatever the the cognate in their languages were as a positive term.

So why not only is she defending this controversial position, but is she doing it in a way where she's sort of throwing it in your face by taking a derogatory term and using it as a positive?

So to the latter question, and then we'll go to talk about egoism, her own answer

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