Description
Incisive and engaging, The Free Market Existentialist proposes a new philosophy that is a synthesis of existentialism, amoralism, and libertarianism.
- Argues that Sartre’s existentialism fits better with capitalism than with Marxism
- Serves as a rallying cry for a new alternative, a minimal state funded by an equal tax
- Confronts the “final delusion” of metaphysical morality, and proposes that we have nothing to fear from an amoral world
- Begins an essential conversation for the 21st century for students, scholars, and armchair philosophers alike with clear, accessible discussions of a range of topics across philosophy including atheism, evolutionary theory, and ethics
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Philosophies of Individualism 1
1 “Out, out, Brief Candle!”: What Do You Mean by Existentialism? 10
2 Like Cigarettes and Existentialism: Why There Is no Necessary Connection between Marxism and Sartre 33
3 To Consume or not to Consume?: How Existentialism Helps Capitalism 62
4 Why Nothing IsWrong: Moral Anti-realism 89
5 Not Going to Hell in a Handbasket: Existentialism and a World without Morality 112
6 What’s Mine Is Mine: Moral Anti-realism and Property Rights 132
7 Who’s Afraid of the Free Market?: Moral Anti-realism and the Minimal State 153
Conclusion: Not Your Father’s Existentialism 179
Select Bibliography 181
Index 193
