Pittsburgh, PA, Estados Unidos : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2019.

ix, 460 p. ; 24 cm.

Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies

I. Reason, force, and the foundations of politics. -- The place of the Non-initiation of force principle in Ayn Rand's philosophy. -- Force and the mind. -- The scope and justification of Rand's Non-initiation of force principle. -- II. Rights and government. -- Ayn Rand's theory of rights: an exposition and response to critics. -- A critique of Ayn Rand's theory of rights: response to Miller and Mossoff. -- Selfish regard for the rights of others: continuing a discussion with Zwolinski, Miller, and Mossoff. -- Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick on rights. -- Rand (contra Nozick) on individual rights and the emergence and justification of government. -- Anarchism versus objectivism. -- Defending liberty: the commonsense approach. -- Egoism, force, and the need for government: a response to Heumer. -- III. Rand and the classical liberal tradition on intellectual freedom. -- A wall of separation between church and state: understanding this principle's supporting arguments and far-reaching implications. -- The arc of liberalism: Locke, Mill, and Rand. -- IV. The nature and foundations of economic freedom (and its opposite). -- Economic theory and conceptions of value: Rand and Austrians versus the mainstream. -- Mises, Rand, and the twentieth century. -- The head, the heart, and the ethics of capitalism: response to Boettke. -- The aristocracy of pull: and objectivism analysis of cronysm. --

Tomado de Amazon: "Foundations of a Free Society brings together some of the most knowledgeable Ayn Rand scholars and proponents of her philosophy, as well as notable critics, putting them in conversation with other intellectuals who also see themselves as defenders of capitalism and individual liberty. United by the view that there is something importantly right—though perhaps also much wrong—in Rand’s political philosophy, contributors reflect on her views with the hope of furthering our understandings of what sort of society is best and why. The volume provides a robust elaboration and defense of the foundation of Rand’s political philosophy in the principle that force paralyzes and negates the functioning of reason; it offers an in-depth scholarly discussion of Rand’s view on the nature of individual rights and the role of government in defending them; it deals extensively with the similarities and differences between Rand’s thought and the libertarian tradition (to which she is often assimilated) and objections to her positions arising from this tradition; it explores Rand’s relation to the classical liberal tradition, specifically with regard to her defense of freedom of the intellect; and it discusses her views on the free market, with special attention to the relation between these views and those of the Austrian school of economics." --

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