On 11/15/2021 at 8:17 PM, Boydstun said:
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With the basics of my own metaphysics now cast, it is plain enough I have a road—some same, some different, from Rand’s—to developing a full-blown ethical theory (not an egoism) set in this new metaphysics. I would love to do that, but because the companion composition to “Existence, We”, the companion philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science is next in my struggle of philosophic creation, it is flatly unknown at this time whether I can continue so long as to get to formulation of that new ethical theory. I’ve known for some time that at the end of my life, however long, I’d be giving myself a grade of Incomplete, but maybe the ethical theory can be slipped under the wire.
As it has worked out, my ethical theory pushed its way to basic formulation along the way of my work on those remaining epistemological topics. That happened because I noticed that there is some normativity already at hand in the axiom from my metaphysics: “Existence exists, we live.” My ethical theory and its ties to and differences from Rand’s are in the first link below. The second link addresses the nature of the choice to live.