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Moral Frameworks for Addressing the Pandemic

Moral Frameworks for Addressing the Pandemic

FromNew Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute


Moral Frameworks for Addressing the Pandemic

FromNew Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Apr 15, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode of New Ideal Live, philosophers Aaron Smith and Onkar Ghate analyze a recent Bloomberg.com article, “How Coronavirus Is Shaking Up the Moral Universe.” That article surveys “some of the leading idea systems undergirding competing conceptions of right and wrong,” informing the views of governments and individuals in response to the pandemic.



Smith and Ghate discussed these influential moral outlooks, noting a common emphasis on sacrifice, while contrasting them with Rand’s morality of rational egoism as a framework for addressing the pandemic.



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Released:
Apr 15, 2020
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Podcast episode

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The New Ideal Podcast features a curated selection of content from the pages of New Ideal, the journal of the Ayn Rand Institute. At New Ideal, we explore pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Rand’s philosophy: Objectivism, which upholds the ideals of reason, individualism and Capitalism.