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The Metaethics Of

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The Metaethics of

Ayn Rand and Objectivism















Foundations of Ethics







January 2001


Table of Contents




o Introduction ………………………………………………..  p. 3-5



Early Ayn Rand ……………………………………  p. 5-6





Literary Period ………………………….………….  p. 7-8





Philosophical Period ………………………………  p. 8-9









o Metaethics …………………………………………………   p.9-10



Existence as Primary …………..……....…………   p. 10-11





Animate vs. Inanimate Objects …………………..  p. 11-13





Life and Value ………………….………………….  p. 13-14





Fact and Value:  The Randian Synthesis ………...  p. 15-17





The Rational Man …………………………………  p. 17-19





Volition and Mind-Body Synthesis ……………….  p. 19-21









o Conclusion:  Aristotle, Nietzsche and Rand …….………..  p. 21-23







o Works Cited ………………………………………….……..  p. 24-25











Introduction


Despised by academics, passionately loved by her followers, Ayn Rand, the novelist-philosopher, has evicted the whole gambit of emotions and responses.  Her work has been ridiculed and praised.  Her followers’ devotion has produced outcries of cultism, allowing one author to write a stirring critique[1] and another a book.[2]  Despite this, Ayn Rand remains, one of the most polarizing writers of the 20th century.  Barbara Branden, a longtime associate, wrote of her:


Few figures in this century have been so admired and so savagely attacked.  She is viewed as goddess and as malefactor, as a seminal genius and an ominously dangerous corrupter of the young, as the mightiest voices for reason and the destroyer of traditional values, as the espouser of joy and the exponent of mindless greed, as the great defender of freedom and the introducer of malevolent values into the mainstream of American thought.[3]


Her followers can be found in the Federal Reserve, with Chairman Allan Greenspan, who some 53...

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