Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Skousen Addresses Randians

Mark Skousen, the Mormon financial advisor, spoke today. He attacked Objectivism for being too selfish. He said Objectivists were not inclined to charitable activities.

Which was odd because *before* he spoke my wife announced she was organizing a scholarship fund for students to attend the Free Minds conference next year.

*Sigh*

Skousen called for finding a middle way between egoism and altruism.

But Alexander Cohen pointed out that this might be problematic, since these are two answers to the question: what is the proper end of ethics?

Is there a golden mean
somewhere between?

Or does egoist living
in fact include forms of giving?

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