The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism
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What is free market existentialism? Why have adherents of existentialism so often chosen Marxism as their political philosophy?
William Irwin joins us this week to discuss his book, The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism (2015).
What purpose or meaning can we give life, if we start from a place where we take as a given that there is no inherent or divine purpose to life? Why should libertarians also be existentialists?
Show Notes and Further Reading
William Irwin’s book, The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism (2015) challenges assumptions about morality, natural rights and the role of government using insights from thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Nozick, and F. A. Hayek.
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