Scrutinizing Scruton's Scrutinizing
The Fallacy of Misunderstanding Selfishness: A Response to Roger Scruton
In an article titled “Altruism and Selfishness,” Roger Scruton challenges Ayn Rand’s concept of selfishness—by committing the very fallacy that Rand identified as the cause of all the confusion on this issue. (Scruton’s article has many problems; I’ll address only the most egregious of them.)
Scruton attributes to Rand the notion that being selfish consi…
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