The free market existentialist : capitalism without consumerism /
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 sta...
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Wiley Blackwell,
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Publisher Address: | Hoboken : |
Publication Dates: | 2015. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119121312 |
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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. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781119121299 1119121299 9781119121305 1119121302 1119121280 9781119121282 |
Index Number: | B819 |
CLC: | B086 |
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. |