• People must strive for own success 
Tibor Machan, Clovis News Journal (NM) Egoism  | A healthy ethical egoism is probably very timely by now. Sadly it has to be noted that, despite the clarity of both philosophers’ prose, the selfishness of philosophers David L. Norton and Ayn Rand is unlike the economic man type, which is not a moral thesis at all but an attempt to describe what motivates us all, all the time. The neo-Aristotelian selfishness, one that implores everyone to strive to be a happy individual, acknowledges that human beings are social — belong to families, communities, fraternities, etc. — and to strive for one’s own success in life must involve the social virtues as well as the personal ones: generosity and compassion, not only prudence and ambition. With such a morality at hand, the human race would be in far better shape than it is with all the scolding it receives for not being selfless enough.     Share on Facebook