Atlas Shrugged and the Importance of Dramatizing Our Values

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07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Geoffrey Allan Plauché

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Why is it important to dramatize our values? Well, morality or ethics, Rand tells us, “is a code of values to guide man’s choices and actions—the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life.

Volume 21, Number 4 (2007)

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Plauché, Geoffrey A. “Atlas Shrugged and the Importance of Dramatizing Our Values.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 21, No. 4 (2007): 25–36.

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