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The free market existentialist : capitalism without consumerism / William Irwin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken : Wiley Blackwell, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781119121299
  • 1119121299
  • 9781119121305
  • 1119121302
  • 1119121280
  • 9781119121282
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Free market existentialist.DDC classification:
  • 142/.78 23
LOC classification:
  • B819
Online resources:
Contents:
Philosophies of individualism -- Out, out, brief candle!?: what do you mean by existentialism? -- Like cigarettes and existentialism: why there is no necessary connection between Marxism and Sartre -- To consume or not to consume?: how existentialism helps capitalism -- Why nothing is wrong: moral anti-realism -- Not going to hell in a handbasket: existentialism and a world without morality -- What's mine is mine: moral anti-realism and property rights -- Who's afraid of the free market?: moral anti-realism and the minimal state -- Not your father's existentialism.
Summary: Incisive and engaging, The Free Market Existentialist proposes a new philosophy that is a synthesis of existentialism, amoralism, and libertarianism. -Argues that Sartre's existentialism fits better with capitalism than with Marxism -Serves as a rallying cry for a new alternative, a minimal state funded by an equal tax -Confronts the "final delusion" of metaphysical morality, and proposes that we have nothing to fear from an amoral world -Begins an essential conversation for the 21st century for students, scholars, and armchair philosophers alike with clear, accessible discussions of a range of topics across philosophy including atheism, evolutionary theory, and ethics.
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Philosophies of individualism -- Out, out, brief candle!?: what do you mean by existentialism? -- Like cigarettes and existentialism: why there is no necessary connection between Marxism and Sartre -- To consume or not to consume?: how existentialism helps capitalism -- Why nothing is wrong: moral anti-realism -- Not going to hell in a handbasket: existentialism and a world without morality -- What's mine is mine: moral anti-realism and property rights -- Who's afraid of the free market?: moral anti-realism and the minimal state -- Not your father's existentialism.

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Incisive and engaging, The Free Market Existentialist proposes a new philosophy that is a synthesis of existentialism, amoralism, and libertarianism. -Argues that Sartre's existentialism fits better with capitalism than with Marxism -Serves as a rallying cry for a new alternative, a minimal state funded by an equal tax -Confronts the "final delusion" of metaphysical morality, and proposes that we have nothing to fear from an amoral world -Begins an essential conversation for the 21st century for students, scholars, and armchair philosophers alike with clear, accessible discussions of a range of topics across philosophy including atheism, evolutionary theory, and ethics.