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Lovign Life: The Morality of Self Interest and the Facts That Support It

Loving Life: The Morality of Self Interest and the Facts That Support It

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  • Contents

  • Introduction: Who Should Read This Book—And Why

    If you want to live your life to the fullest, if you want to achieve the greatest happiness possible, this book is for you. It is about the essential means to that end: a proper code of values—a proper morality. More >>

  • Chapter 1. Religion Versus Subjectivism: Why Neither Will Do

    "If there is no God, anything goes." This popular claim is an eloquent distillation of a deep-rooted false alternative wrecking havoc on human life and happiness. The adage compresses into a few words the age-old debate over whether morality is a matter of "divine commandments" or "human sentiments." Whatever their disagreements, both sides of this argument accept the idea that your basic moral choice is to be guided either by faith or by feelings. In other words, both sides agree that your choice is: religion or subjectivism. But if you want to live and enjoy life, neither of these will do. More >>

  • Chapter 2. The Is–Ought Gap: Subjectivism's Technical Retreat

    As we have seen, subjectivism—whether "supernatural," social, or personal—fails to provide proper guidance for human action, because each version calls for human sacrifice and leads to human suffering. If we want to live and achieve genuine happiness, we need a non-sacrificial alternative that is grounded in the facts of reality. But in search of such an alternative, we are faced with a big problem: The world is full of facts. More >>

  • Index