CONTENTS

Preface
Reason, Choice, and the Ultimate End
Reasoning about Ends: Life as a Value in Ayn Rand’s Ethics	Darryl Wright
The Choice to Value (1990)	Allan Gotthelf
Metaethics: Objectivist and Analytic
The Foundations of Ethics: Objectivism and Analytic Philosophy	Irfan Khawaja
Egoism and Eudaimonism: Replies to Khawaja	Paul Bloomfield
Egoism and Virtue in Nietzsche and Rand
Nietzsche and Rand as Virtuous Egoists	Christine Swanton
Virtue and Sacrifice: Response to Swanton	Darryl Wright
Author Meets Critics: Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics
Rational Selves, Friends, and the Social Virtues	Helen Cullyer
Egoistic Relations with Others: Response to Cullyer	Tara Smith
Virtuous Egoism and Virtuous Altruism	Christine Swanton
On Altruism, and the Role of Virtues in Rand’s Egoism: Response to Swanton	Tara Smith
What Is Included in Virtue?	Lester H. Hunt
The Primacy of Action in Virtue: Response to Hunt	Tara Smith
Uniform Abbreviations of Works References List of Contributors Index