Classical Individualism : The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being (Paperback)

1 Individualism and classical liberalism 2 Ethics and free will: a neglected connection 3 Human action and the nature of moral evil 4 Why objective ethical claims appear subjective 5 A defense of property rights and capitalism 6 America’s founding principles and multiculturalism 7 Radical feminism as uniformitarianism 8 Human rights reaffirmed 9 Do animals have rights? 10 Politics and generosity 11 Understanding Eastern European developments 12 Individual rights and the common good: the case of the environment 13 Individualism and political dialogue 14 Individualism versus its critics 15 Reason, individualism, and capitalism: the moral vision of Ayn Rand