Published On Sep 20, 2013
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Stephen Hicks reads his article "Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand" from The Journal of Ayn Rand Studes vol. 10, no. 2 (Spring 2009), pp. 249-91. See Part 2 here: • Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand: Part Two
Table of Contents
00:00 Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand: Part One
00:19 Part One: On Critiquing Altruism
00:25 Three Nietzsches and Ayn Rand
06:59 Some Intellectuals on Nietzsche and Rand
14:15 Egoism, altruism, and “selfishness”
19:57 A Nietzschean sketch/God is dead
22:30 Nihilism’s symptoms
26:13 Two bio-psychological types
28:40 Psychology and morality
31:17 Genealogy
42:22 Comparing Nietzsche’s and Rand’s critiques of altruism
57:22 Rand’s break with Nietzsche’s critique
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