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Flourishing and happiness in a free society : toward a synthesis of Aristotelianism, Austrian economics, and Ayn Rand's Objectivism / Edward W. Younkins.
Van Pelt Library B945.R234 Y68 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Younkins, Edward W. (Edward Wayne), 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rand, Ayn.
- Aristotle.
- Menger, Carl, 1840-1921.
- Menger, Carl.
- Von Mises, Ludwig, 1881-1973.
- Von Mises, Ludwig.
- Objectivism (Philosophy).
- Capitalism--Philosophy.
- Capitalism.
- Happiness--Philosophy.
- Happiness.
- Liberty--Philosophy.
- Liberty.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2011]
- Summary:
- This book provides a framework for a potential paradigm of human flourishing and happiness in a free society. It is an exploratory attempt to construct an understanding from various disciplines and to integrate them into a clear consistent, coherent, and systematic whole. Holding that there are essential interconnections among objective ideas, the book emphasizes the compatibility of Aristotelianism, Austrian economics, and Ayn Rand's Objectivism. It argues that particular ideas from these areas can be integrated into a paradigm of human flourishing and happiness based on the nature of man and the world. Such a paradigm will help people to understand the world and to survive and flourish in it. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond 27
- Menger's Aristotelianism 28
- Mises's Neo-Kantianism 30
- Menger's Pre-Randian Theory of Objective Value 35
- Mises Reconstructs Menger's Value Theory 37
- Mises on Social Cooperation 40
- Ayn Rand's Objectivism 45
- Rand's Biocentric Theory of Value 47
- Comparing and Reconciling Mengerian, Misesian, and Randian Value Theories 48
- Compatibility of Subjectivism and Objectivism 50
- Comparing the Ideas of Rothbard and Rand 52
- Post-Randian Philosophers of Human Flourishing 55
- Toward an Integrated Framework 55
- 2 Human Nature, Flourishing, and Happiness 63
- Human Nature and Human Flourishing 66
- Individual Rights 70
- Happiness and Its Pursuit 74
- Flow 77
- Generic Goods and Virtues 78
- Needs, Values, and Goals 81
- Values and Virtues 87
- Action 91
- Toward an Integrated Framework 95
- 3 Toward the Development of a Paradigm of Human Flourishing in a Free Society 107
- The Nature of Man and the World 111
- Natural Law 114
- Human Flourishing 119
- Human Flourishing and Natural Rights 124
- Morality and Human Flourishing 129
- Human Flourishing and the Personal Virtues 132
- The Pursuit of Flourishing and Happiness 135
- Toward the Future 141.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780761855293
- 0761855297
- OCLC:
- 742512150
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