Tag: Bernard Gert
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From Thomas Hobbes to John Locke: Putting Ayn Rand Through Her Paces
Reading Time: 11 minutesThe question of morality in political and economic systems has been brought into the national conversation by Paul Ryan, a follower of Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand’s definition of morality is the morality of rational self-interest. She argued that rational and ethical egoism should be the guiding principle of morality, and she defined…