Ayn Rand's Virtue of Selfishness vs. Henry Veatch's Rational Man
Today many faculty at Florida Tech commemorated the life of Bob Shearer, a philosophy professor for the last 35 years before succumbing to cancer about 2 weeks ago, one day after teaching class to one of my daughters.
Prof. Shearer's favorite book was “Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics”. After having read this and compared it to Rand's work, the philosophies appear to be quite similar. I would appreciate being enlightened on some of the specific differences between Rand and Veatch, besides the fact that Veatch was a theist. Prof. Shearer interestingly enjoyed Sartre as well, whose philosophy is quite different.
Prof. Shearer's favorite book was “Rational Man: A Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics”. After having read this and compared it to Rand's work, the philosophies appear to be quite similar. I would appreciate being enlightened on some of the specific differences between Rand and Veatch, besides the fact that Veatch was a theist. Prof. Shearer interestingly enjoyed Sartre as well, whose philosophy is quite different.
I hope my memory has not been wrong about them after so many years.
I get some difference in how he understands the difference between rational and irrational in the preface than what Rand might have understood them.