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from the University of Pittsburgh Press website:
Metaethics, Egoism, and
Virtue
examines central aspects of Ayn
Rand’s ethical theory. Though her endorsement of ethical
egoism
is well known—one of her most familiar essay collections is The
Virtue of Selfishness—the
character of her egoism is not.
Leading
Rand scholars and specialists in ethical theory address issues such as:
the basis of Rand’s egoism in a virtue-centered normative
ethics;
her account of how moral norms in general are themselves based on a
fundamental choice by an agent to value his own life; and how her own
approach to the foundations of ethics is to be compared and contrasted
with familiar approaches in the analytic ethical tradition.
Philosophers
interested in the
objectivity of value, in the way ethical
theory is (and is not) virtue-based, and in acquiring a serious
understanding of an egoistic moral theory worthy of attention will find
much to consider here.