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#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Moral Philosophy Underlying the Nation?
The founders were explicitly Christian and altruistic in their morality. They implicitly, they had that fast thinking that gut that told them that this was right. But they can't ground it. They don't really understand what reason is or what happiness requires. So you know, so I think that government is necessary. It's not a necessary evil. It's a necessary good because it does something good. And the good that it does is eliminates coercion from society. It eliminates violence from society. The use of force between individuals from society.
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