Greg Salmieri
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Elucidations · Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand's moral philosophy · 15 Jul 2015
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The answer was y for the same reason that it frightens you.
She addresses this in the introduction.
That is she's
Wants to own that she's taking a very radical position, a position that's not what many philosophers are trying to do, just systematizing what our intuitions are about how we should live.
She's posing a challenge to people's moral views.
She's saying there's things we need to change about how we live.
And because there are prejudices and false moral views in society, any term that you come up with for what she means.
means by selfishness for living for your own sake is gonna take on this negative connotation, egoism, egotism, self interest, and she wants to kind of confront that upfront.
That said, she doesn't mean by it exactly what most people mean by it.
The relation between what she means by selfish and what the conventional meaning of selfish has the kind of relation that you find in cases of racial groups or persecuted sexual minorities reclaiming derogatory terms against them.
Like you say this with queer or slot, there are groups who say we're sluts and we're proud of it, or we're queer and we're proud of it.
And they don't mean that all the negative stereotypes that associate with that
term apply to them, but that there is a core that applies to them that is the very thing that other people object to, and they want to stand up proudly for that and say that it doesn't lead to all the stereotyped behaviors.
Yeah, I think there are some questions we need to ask before we're in a position to think about this.
One that's the the more obvious of the two is we have to think about what really is in one's self interest.
Is it just whatever one happens to want or desire in the moment?
Seemingly not, because people take all kinds of self-destructive actions and actions they later regret.
So if you're going to have an objective theory of self-interest, which is what Rand does, we have to think what is it?
And once we know more what it is, we might be in a better position to think about whether it is in fact what someone should act in or not.
But she didn't think that that was the first question actually we should ask in ethics.
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