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David L. Norton, "Personal destinies: a philosophy of ethical individualism" (review)Metaphilosophy 11 (n/a): 285. 1980.
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31Halsall, Francis, Jansen, Julia & O'Connor, TonyBritish Journal of Aesthetics 49 (3): 315. 2009.
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21Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue : This book is a discussion of Nietzsche's ethical and political ideas. It is an attempt to be both scholarly and, in a sense, activist. The ultimate point is to see how believers in liberal democracy (like me and most of my readers) should respond to the challenge that Nietzsche represents. As with any profound challenge, one is never the same again after it is overcome. In particular, I suggest that liberals can learn something very important from the ideas t…Read more
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38Debating Gun Control: How Much Regulation Do We Need?Oxford University Press USA. 2016.Americans have an ambivalent relationship to guns. The debate over the role of guns and gun regulations in American society tends to be acrimonious and misinformed.
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21Punishment, Revenge, and the Minimal Functions of the StateBowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 1 79-88. 1979.
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4Ayn Rand's Evolving View of Friedrich NietzscheIn Allan Gotthelf & Gregory Salmieri (eds.), A Companion to Ayn Rand, Wiley-blackwell. 2016.This chapter describes the story of Ayn Rand's changing attitude toward Friedrich Nietzsche. One thing that can make the relationship between them difficult to understand is the fact that Rand's relation to Nietzsche changes considerably over the years. The history of this relationship can be divided roughly into three different periods. The first begins during her years as a student in Russia and ends with the completion of The Fountainhead (approximately 1921–1942). The second period follows u…Read more
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11Philosophy in the Twilight Zone (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2009.Utilizing a series of essays examining the broad philosophical concepts embedded in Rod Serling's series, _The Twilight Zone_, __Philosophy in The Twilight Zone__ provides a platform for further philosophical discussion. Features essays by eminent contemporary philosophers concerning the over-arching themes in _The Twilight Zone,_ as well as in-depth discussions of particular episodes Fuses popular cult entertainment with classical philosophical perspectives Acts as a guide to unearthing larger …Read more
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2IntroductionIn Noël Carroll & Lester H. Hunt (eds.), Philosophy in the Twilight Zone, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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15And Now, Rod Serling, Creator of The Twilight ZoneIn Noël Carroll & Lester H. Hunt (eds.), Philosophy in the Twilight Zone, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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29Courage: A Philosophical InvestigationInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 23 (2): 117-118. 1988.
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18Review of Douglas N. Walton: Courage: A Philosophical Investigation (review)Ethics 98 (1): 172-173. 1987.
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27The Eternal Recurrence and Nietzsche’s Ethic of VirtueInternational Studies in Philosophy 25 (2): 3-11. 1993.What I would like to try to show here, to the extent that I can do so briefly, is that Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal recurrence of the same things is - whatever else it might be in addition to this - an ethical idea. Considering it as such, I will argue, promises to shed light both on the content of Nietzsche's ethics and on the idea of recurrence.
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23Self-FulfillmentPhilosophical Review 109 (4): 589. 2000.As its title suggests, the subject of this book is the nature of self-fulfillment, which the author defines as “carrying to fruition one’s deepest desires or one’s worthiest capacities”. It treats this subject as a specifically ethical one. The motivation behind it lies in the author’s conviction that all other norms and ideals have value only insofar as they serve to advance this one.
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217Self-fulfillmentPhilosophical Review 109 (4): 589-592. 2000.As its title suggests, the subject of this book is the nature of self-fulfillment, which the author defines as “carrying to fruition one’s deepest desires or one’s worthiest capacities”. It treats this subject as a specifically ethical one. The motivation behind it lies in the author’s conviction that all other norms and ideals have value only insofar as they serve to advance this one.
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44Nietzsche and the origin of virtueRoutledge. 1991.contemporary ethical project--one that should inform our lives as well as our thoughts.
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7Nietzsche and the Origin of VirtueRoutledge. 1991.In _Ecce Homo_ Friedrich Nietzsche calls himself "the first immoralist" and adds "that makes me the annihilator _par excellence_". Lester Hunt examines this and other radical claims in order to show that Nietzsche does have a coherent ethical and political philosophy. He uses Nietzsche's writings as a starting point for a critique of a wider, contemporary ethical project - one that should inform our lives as well as our thoughts
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4Nietzsche and the Origin of VirtueRoutledge. 1991.In _Ecce Homo_ Friedrich Nietzsche calls himself "the first immoralist" and adds "that makes me the annihilator _par excellence_". Lester Hunt examines this and other radical claims in order to show that Nietzsche does have a coherent ethical and political philosophy. He uses Nietzsche's writings as a starting point for a critique of a wider, contemporary ethical project - one that should inform our lives as well as our thoughts.
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7Nietzsche and the Origin of VirtueRoutledge. 1991.In _Ecce Homo_ Friedrich Nietzsche calls himself "the first immoralist" and adds "that makes me the annihilator _par excellence_". Lester Hunt examines this and other radical claims in order to show that Nietzsche does have a coherent ethical and political philosophy. He uses Nietzsche's writings as a starting point for a critique of a wider, contemporary ethical project - one that should inform our lives as well as our thoughts.
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Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick on rightsIn Gregory Salmieri & Robert Mayhew (eds.), Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand's Political Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh Press. 2019.
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26Time to Revisit Classical Film TheoryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (1): 42-51. 2021.Film audiences are no longer in a position to know for certain which images, or features of images they see on the screen were created by photography and which were created in a computer. Yet they are reacting to the advent of computer graphics as if it is merely a technical improvement, not a change in the nature of film itself. This would mean that one of the most influential early theories of film—realism—is wrong. It held that film is by nature photographic and that its unique value is to af…Read more
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40Quandaries and Virtues: Against Reductivism in Ethics (review)Philosophical Review 98 (2): 249-251. 1989.
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21Book ReviewsFrederick Appel,.Nietzsche contra Democracy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xv + 174. $29.95 (review)Ethics 111 (1): 156-157. 2000.
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9Book ReviewsTara Smith,. Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. x+318. $92.00 ; $26.99 (review)Ethics 119 (2): 394-397. 2009.
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17Book ReviewsJulia. Driver, Uneasy Virtue.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi+132. $53.00Ethics 114 (1): 167-170. 2003.
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