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EP #44 | Ayn Rand’s Critique of Nietzsche’s Ethics

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Are Moral Codes a Universal Value for All Human Beings?

Nita is a moral relativist, while rand is a moral universalist. If you believe that moral codes express people's psychological, biological types, then we're going to have very different moral codes in contradiction to each other. And as for egoism, he also argues explicitly that egoism should not be universally extended. The ideas of the herd should rule the herd, but not reach out beyond it.

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