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- Title
Egoism versus Rights.
- Authors
Bass, Robert H.
- Abstract
Rand's commitments to egoism and to libertarian rights are meant at least to be well-suited to fit together as parts of a comprehensive moral and political theory. After examining and rejecting arguments that ethical egoism is presupposed by libertarian rights, Bass develops an argument that the two theses are incompatible, that if egoism is true, then there are no rights, and that if there are rights, then egoism is not true. Then, he considers and responds to objections, and concludes with a challenge for theorists still inclined to suppose that the two are compatible.
- Publication
Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Foundation), 2006, Vol 7, Issue 2, p329
- ISSN
1526-1018
- Publication type
Academic Journal