期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：1998
卷号：23
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：I would like to continue discussing why Ayn Rand is worth studying. I agree that Rand is very audacious. She can go to the heart of a controversial matter with just a few sentences. Her analytical skills are great. However, it is with her power to convey the emotional meaning of individualism, capitalism, and liberty that she is truly unsurpassed. By "emotional" I mean having to do with values and morality. Anyone who reads Rand can come to feel both the supreme worth of the individual human being and the evil of all forms of oppression. When it comes to expressing the moral importance of the individual, of capitalism, and of liberty, there is no better writer. Professor Machan has correctly identified Rand as a cognitivist in ethics. She is also naturalistic; that is, she appeals to human nature to understand the human good. I further agree that Rand is a "classical egoist" if we mean by those words that self-interest is determined by the facts about your nature and not merely by your wants or desires
