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    Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue.Kathleen Marie Higgins & Lester Hunt - 1993 - Philosophical Review 102 (1):103.
  2. Literature as fable, fable as argument.Lester H. Hunt - 2009 - Philosophy and Literature 33 (2):pp. 369-385.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Literature as Fable, Fable as ArgumentLester H. HuntIIn an ancient Chinese text we find the following exchange between the Confucian sage Mencius and one of his adversaries:Kao Tzu said, "Human nature is like whirling water. Give it an outlet in the east and it will flow east; give an outlet in the west and it will flow west. Human nature does not show any preference for either good or (...)
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  3. Flourishing Egoism.Lester H. Hunt - 1999 - Social Philosophy and Policy 16 (1):72.
    Early in Peter Abelard's Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Christian, the philosopher and the Christian easily come to agreement about what the point of ethics is: “[T]he culmination of true ethics … is gathered together in this: that it reveal where the ultimate good is and by what road we are to arrive there.” They also agree that, since the enjoyment of this ultimate good “comprises true blessedness,” ethics “far surpasses other teachings in both usefulness and worthiness.” (...)
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    Courage: A Philosophical Investigation.Lester H. Hunt - 1988 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 23 (2):117-118.
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  5. The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms.Todd C. Hughes & Lester H. Hunt - 2000 - Public Affairs Quarterly 14 (1):1-25.
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    Generosity.Lester H. Hunt - 1975 - American Philosophical Quarterly 12 (3):235 - 244.
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  7. The Right to Arms as a Means-Right.Lester Hunt - 2011 - Public Affairs Quarterly 25 (2):113-130.
    1. Two IssuesIn recent years, a number of philosophers have discussed the possibility that the widely recognized right of self-defense includes another, more controversial right: a right to arms, where “arms” is understood to include guns. I will argue in what follows that the right of self-defense does indeed have this feature, and I will offer a new explanation of why it does so—an explanation that, despite its novelty is, I believe, deeply rooted in common sense.I n Section 2, I (...)
     
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    (1 other version)Thus spake Howard Roark: Nietzschean ideas in.Lester H. Hunt - 2006 - Philosophy and Literature 30 (1):79-101.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Thus Spake Howard Roark:Nietzschean Ideas in The FountainheadLester H. HuntIThe position I will be taking here will seem very peculiar to many people. I will be treating a novel as a discussion of the work of a philosopher—namely, Friedrich Nietzsche. Worse yet, I will be treating it as a discussion that is philosophically penetrating and deserves to be taken seriously. Still worse, the novel is Ayn Rand's early novel (...)
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    Character and Thought.Lester H. Hunt - 1978 - American Philosophical Quarterly 15 (3):177 - 186.
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    Flourishing Egoism*: LESTER H. HUNT.Lester H. Hunt - 1999 - Social Philosophy and Policy 16 (1):72-95.
    Early in Peter Abelard's Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Christian, the philosopher and the Christian easily come to agreement about what the point of ethics is: “[T]he culmination of true ethics … is gathered together in this: that it reveal where the ultimate good is and by what road we are to arrive there.” They also agree that, since the enjoyment of this ultimate good “comprises true blessedness,” ethics “far surpasses other teachings in both usefulness and worthiness.” (...)
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    Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide.Lester H. Hunt - 2015 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    _Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide_ presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick’s highly influential 1974 work on free-market libertarianism—considered one of the most important and influential works of political philosophy published in the latter half of the 20th-century. Makes accessible all the major ideas and arguments presented in Nozick’s complex masterpiece Explains, as well as critiques, Robert Nozick’s theory of free market libertarianism Enables a new generation of readers to draw their own (...)
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    Beyond Master and Slave: Developing a Third Paradigm.Lester H. Hunt - 2015 - Journal of Value Inquiry 49 (3):353-367.
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    Martha Nussbaum on the emotions.Lester Hunt - 2006 - Ethics 116 (3):552-577.
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    An argument against a legal duty to rescue.Lester H. Hunt - 1995 - Journal of Social Philosophy 26 (1):16-38.
    Indeed, to a layperson reading the relevant case law, it almost seems that the courts sometimes try to make this principle seem as shocking as possible. In one decision that is often cited, a unanimous state supreme court held that, not only did an eight year old boy have no right to be rescued by the defendant from having his hand caught in a machine in the defendant's factory, but he (the boy, as a trespasser) would even have been liable (...)
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    Courage and Principle.Lester H. Hunt - 1980 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 10 (2):281 - 293.
    The things I wish to say here are relatively few and simple. Reflection on certain moral phenomena suggests, by way of a rather loose dialectical argument, a certain traditional theory of the nature of virtue. This is the notion that virtue consists, partly, of acting on the basis of some principle. If we do not assume in advance some narrow conception of what principles are like, this theory can provide us with a plausible account of the virtue of courage. If (...)
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    Politics and Anti-Politics: Nietzsche's View of the State.Lester H. Hunt - 1985 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 2 (4):453 - 468.
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    What Art Does.Lester Hunt - 2001 - Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 2 (2):253 - 263.
    Lester Hunt argues that, despite its being too narrow in the topics it treats, Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi's What Art Is offers a fascinating account of Ayn Rand's views on art and, in addition, constitutes a major contribution to Objectivist aesthetics.
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  18. Gun Control.Lester Hunt - 2013 - International Encyclopedia of Ethics.
    The phrase “gun control” has no very precise meaning. It typically refers either to prohibitions of or restrictions on gun ownership on the part of the civilian population. Such rules may apply either to guns in general or to some type of gun (such as handguns). More rarely, it can refer to legal restrictions, not on classes of weapons, but on classes of users, a sort of restriction that might be called “dangerous possessor gun control” (see Risk). In this case, (...)
     
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  19. Self-fulfillment.Lester H. Hunt - 2000 - Philosophical Review 109 (4):589-592.
    As its title suggests, the subject of this book is the nature of self-fulfillment, which the author defines as “carrying to fruition one’s deepest desires or one’s worthiest capacities”. It treats this subject as a specifically ethical one. The motivation behind it lies in the author’s conviction that all other norms and ideals have value only insofar as they serve to advance this one.
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    Debating Gun Control: How Much Regulation Do We Need?David DeGrazia & Lester H. Hunt - 2016 - New York, US: Oxford University Press USA.
    Americans have an ambivalent relationship to guns. The debate over the role of guns and gun regulations in American society tends to be acrimonious and misinformed.
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    Quandaries and Virtues: Against Reductivism in Ethics. [REVIEW]Lester H. Hunt - 1989 - Philosophical Review 98 (2):249-251.
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    Halsall, Francis, Jansen, Julia & O'Connor, Tony.Noel Carroll, Lester H. Hunt, Richard Eldridge, Carl Plantinga, Stephen Prickett, Benami Scharfstein, Terry Smith, Okwui Enwezor & Nancy Condee - 2009 - British Journal of Aesthetics 49 (3):315.
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    Philosophy in the Twilight Zone.NoË Carroll, L., Lester  Hunt & H. (eds.) - 2009 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Utilizing a series of essays examining the broad philosophical concepts embedded in Rod Serling's series, The Twilight Zone, Philosophy in The Twilight Zone provides a platform for further philosophical discussion. Features essays by eminent contemporary philosophers concerning the over-arching themes in The Twilight Zone, as well as in-depth discussions of particular episodes Fuses popular cult entertainment with classical philosophical perspectives Acts as a guide to unearthing larger questions - from human nature to the nature of reality and beyond - posed (...)
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    Philosophy in the Twilight Zone.Noël Carroll & Lester H. Hunt (eds.) - 2009 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Utilizing a series of essays examining the broad philosophical concepts embedded in Rod Serling's series, _The Twilight Zone_, __Philosophy in The Twilight Zone__ provides a platform for further philosophical discussion. Features essays by eminent contemporary philosophers concerning the over-arching themes in _The Twilight Zone,_ as well as in-depth discussions of particular episodes Fuses popular cult entertainment with classical philosophical perspectives Acts as a guide to unearthing larger questions - from human nature to the nature of reality and beyond - posed (...)
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  25. A Note On Action And Causal Explanation.Lester Hunt - 1978 - Reason Papers 4:89-94.
     
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    And Now, Rod Serling, Creator of The Twilight Zone.Lester H. Hunt - 2009 - In Noël Carroll & Lester H. Hunt (eds.), Philosophy in the Twilight Zone. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 5–25.
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  27. Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick on rights.Lester H. Hunt - 2019 - In Gregory Salmieri & Robert Mayhew (eds.), Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand's Political Philosophy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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    Ayn Rand's Evolving View of Friedrich Nietzsche.Lester H. Hunt - 2016 - In Allan Gotthelf & Gregory Salmieri (eds.), A Companion to Ayn Rand. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 343–350.
    This chapter describes the story of Ayn Rand's changing attitude toward Friedrich Nietzsche. One thing that can make the relationship between them difficult to understand is the fact that Rand's relation to Nietzsche changes considerably over the years. The history of this relationship can be divided roughly into three different periods. The first begins during her years as a student in Russia and ends with the completion of The Fountainhead (approximately 1921–1942). The second period follows upon the completion of The (...)
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    (1 other version)Book ReviewsJulia. Driver, Uneasy Virtue.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi+132. $53.00.Lester H. Hunt - 2003 - Ethics 114 (1):167-170.
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    Character and Culture.Lester H. Hunt - 1997 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Character and Culture presents an integrated account of the nature of character and a discussion of the various ways in which it is influenced, for better and worse, by social and political institutions. Through a careful analysis of virtue and vice, Hunt argues that character traits consist, in part but very crucially, of certain ideas on which the individual acts. Institutions such as commerce and private gift exchange, says Hunt, can encourage people to possess positive character traits—not by offering bribes (...)
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  31. Character and Culture.Lester H. Hunt - 2000 - Mind 109 (436):940-943.
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    Response to Lester Hunt.Lester H. Hunt - 1992 - International Studies in Philosophy 24 (2):95-97.
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    Chapter VIII grading teachers:.Lester Hunt - manuscript
    I sometimes entertain my non-academic friends by telling them that, at the end of each course I teach, before I compute my students’ grades, I pause nervously while I wait to be graded by my students. This process can be described less paradoxically, but surely no more truthfully, as follows. In my department, and as far as I know all the departments at my university, each course ends with students anonymously filling out forms in which they evaluate the teacher and (...)
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  34. Dominations and powers: The nature of the state.Lester Hunt - manuscript
    |The Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal | |Democracy is located on the University of | |Wisconsin-Madison campus. The missions of the Center| |are to promote critical understanding and | |appreciation of the cardinal principles and | |institutions of liberal democracy, and to advance | |intellectual diversity on campus by the presentation | |of all relevant viewpoints pertaining to liberal |.
     
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    Further reading..Lester Hunt - manuscript
    Aristos Michelle Kamhi and Louis Torres are working hard to bring attention to Ayn Rand's much neglected theory of art and literature. This is their web site. It was dormant while they wer finishing their book, but now they are adding new material again.
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    Home.Lester Hunt - manuscript
    You can view some of my published rantings by clicking below. All of which, except for the first one, were published in student newspapers here at UW. There was also an op-ed piece in the Wisconsin State Journal , but I don't seem to have an electronic copy of it. (Note: Some of these were published under different titles than those used here.).
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    Introduction.Lester H. Hunt - 2009 - In Noël Carroll & Lester H. Hunt (eds.), Philosophy in the Twilight Zone. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 1–4.
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  38. Libertarianism.Lester H. Hunt - 2013 - In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell.
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  39. On Improving Mankind by Political Means.Lester Hunt - 1985 - Reason Papers 10:61-76.
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    Poetic injustice: How narratives can lead us astray.Lester Hunt - manuscript
    In Poetic Justice Martha Nussbaum undertakes to explain how “story-telling and literary imagining” can supply “essential ingredients in a rational argument” and thereby improve public discourse regarding important ethical, political, and legal issues.
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    Punishment, Revenge, and the Minimal Functions of the State.Lester H. Hunt - 1979 - Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 1:79-88.
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    Reply to Stephen R. C. Hicks, "Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand" (Spring 2009): Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand: A Somewhat Different Approach.Lester Hunt - 2009 - Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 10 (2):293 - 312.
    If we examine Rand's relation to Nietzsche in terms of the number of issues on which the late Rand agreed with him, the connection between them looks extremely weak. On the other hand, if we look at the relation in terms of Rand's philosophical development, the connection is much more profound. Nietzsche is where Rand began as a thinker, and though she traveled far from this source, her thinking always bore important traces of her beginnings.
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    Sentiment and sympathy.Lester H. Hunt - 2004 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62 (4):339–354.
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    The Eternal Recurrence and Nietzsche’s Ethic of Virtue.Lester H. Hunt - 1993 - International Studies in Philosophy 25 (2):3-11.
    What I would like to try to show here, to the extent that I can do so briefly, is that Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal recurrence of the same things is - whatever else it might be in addition to this - an ethical idea. Considering it as such, I will argue, promises to shed light both on the content of Nietzsche's ethics and on the idea of recurrence.
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    This is the Chalk cliffs on ruegen by Kaspar David Friedrich, which Routledge was good enough to put on the cover of Nietzsche and the origin of virtue. I.Lester Hunt - manuscript
    Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue : This book is a discussion of Nietzsche's ethical and political ideas. It is an attempt to be both scholarly and, in a sense, activist. The ultimate point is to see how believers in liberal democracy (like me and most of my readers) should respond to the challenge that Nietzsche represents. As with any profound challenge, one is never the same again after it is overcome. In particular, I suggest that liberals can learn something (...)
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    The paradox of the unknown lover: A reading of letter from an unknown woman.Lester H. Hunt - 2006 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (1):55–66.
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    Time to Revisit Classical Film Theory.Lester H. Hunt - 2021 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (1):42-51.
    Film audiences are no longer in a position to know for certain which images, or features of images they see on the screen were created by photography and which were created in a computer. Yet they are reacting to the advent of computer graphics as if it is merely a technical improvement, not a change in the nature of film itself. This would mean that one of the most influential early theories of film—realism—is wrong. It held that film is by (...)
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  48. The Twilight Zone and Philosophy.Lester Hunt & Noel Carroll (eds.) - 2008 - Blackwell.
     
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    Why Democracy Is an Enemy of Virtue.Lester Hunt - 1998 - International Studies in Philosophy 30 (3):13-21.
  50. What is Living in the Philosophy of Ayn Rand.Lester Hunt - 1998 - Reason Papers 23:79-82.
     
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