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- From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
- Subject: Non Serviam, Issue #1
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:03:59 GMT
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- The philosophers who attempted to devise an allegedly rational code of ethics
- gave mankind nothing but a choice of whims: the "selfish" pursuit of one's own
- whims (such as the ethics of Nietzsche)-or "selfless" service to the whims of
- others (such as the ethics of Bentham, Mill, Comte, and of all social
- hedonists...).
-
- Too often, the ethical-political meaning of individualism is held to be: doing
- whatever one wishes, regardless of the rights of others. Writers such as
- Nietzsche and Max Stirner are sometimes quoted in support of this
- interpretation.
-
- If you achieve that which is good by a rational standard of value, it will
- necesarily make you happy; but hat which makes you happy, by some undefined
- emotional standard, is not necessarily the good.
-
- [Ayn Rand, _Virtue of Selfishness_]
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- "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- AYN RAND
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- Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASSD.EDU>
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