The Morality of Life

Gotthelf, Allan

doi:10.1002/9781118324950.ch4

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Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics Applied to Video Game Business

2019

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This article analyzes the business ethics of digital games, using Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. It identifies different types of monetization options as virtuous or nonvirtuous, based on Rand's views on rational self-interest. It divides the options into ethical Mover and unethical Looter designs, presents those logics in relation to an illustrative case example, Zynga, and then discusses a view on the role of players in relation to game monetization designs. Through our analysis of monetization options in the context of Objectivist ethics, the article contributes to discussions on game revenue ethics. It also expands the still understudied area of applying Rand's ethics to business, in the context of a new sector, game development, and business. This research enables ethicists to apply a wider-than-before perspective on virtue ethics to online business, and helps game developers act in a virtuous manner, which provides them with a long-term business advantage.

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Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics Applied to Video Game Business

2019

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Philosophy of values and ethics in Ayn Rand’s axiological objectivism

Švihura

2024

Ethics &Amp; Bioethics

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The paper presents an analysis and interpretation of axiology and ethics as seen by the writer and philosopher Ayn Rand. The author follows the assumption that, in a situation where indifference is observed with regard to values (cf. Simmel, Sloterdijk), a return of philosophical reasoning to the idea of objectivity of values could be worthwhile. Therefore, he examines a specific type of axiological objectivism that can be found in Rand’s work. In the present paper, the suggested comparison with Baden neo-Kantism as well as phenomenological axiology serves to capture the specifics of Rand’s axiological approach. These lie in placing emphasis on such a relationship between facts and values in which values result from the facts of reality, as well as in the very understanding of the objectivity of values that Rand identifies with long-term life goals and identifies them as an objective necessity for an individual’s life. Following the analysis of Rand’s axiology, the author focuses on her understanding of ethics, which he places in contrast to Kant’s deontology, as well as morality, which he views through the prism of a business relationship based on the exchange of values. The aim of the paper is to, by means of an analysis and interpretation of Rand’s ideas, show that objective values can be understood as a necessary prerequisite for consequential ethics and an individual living a happy life without being anchored in transcendence or social consensus.

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W stronę etyki racjonalnego egoizmu

Gowin¹

2023

Solidarność I Egoizm We Współczesnym Dyskursie Akademickim

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The Morality of Life

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References 9 publications

Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics Applied to Video Game Business

Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics Applied to Video Game Business

Philosophy of values and ethics in Ayn Rand’s axiological objectivism

W stronę etyki racjonalnego egoizmu

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