The Free Market Existentialist

Incisive and engaging, The Free Market Existentialist proposes a new philosophy that is a synthesis of existentialism, amoralism, and libertarianism. Argues that Sartre’s existentialism fits better with capitalism than with Marxism Serves as a rallying cry for a new alternative, a minimal state funded by an equal tax Confronts the “final delusion” of metaphysical morality, and proposes that we have nothing to fear from an amoral world Begins an essential conversation for the 21st century for students, scholars, and armchair philosophers alike with clear, accessible discussions of a range of topics across philosophy including atheism, evolutionary theory, and ethics

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Philosophies of Individualism 1 1 “Out, out, Brief Candle!”: What Do You Mean by Existentialism? 10 2 Like Cigarettes and Existentialism: Why There Is no Necessary Connection between Marxism and Sartre 33 3 To Consume or not to Consume?: How Existentialism Helps Capitalism 62 4 Why Nothing IsWrong: Moral Anti-realism 89 5 Not Going to Hell in a Handbasket: Existentialism and a World without Morality 112 6 What’s Mine Is Mine: Moral Anti-realism and Property Rights 132 7 Who’s Afraid of the Free Market?: Moral Anti-realism and the Minimal State 153 Conclusion: Not Your Father’s Existentialism 179 Select Bibliography 181 Index 193