Episode 147: The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism (with William Irwin)
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2016-08-12

William Irwin joins us to talk about existentialism and libertarianism. What did thinkers like Sartre and Neitzsche have to say about capitalism and human freedom?

What is free market existentialism? Why have adherents of existentialism so often chosen Marxism as their political philosophy?

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.
https://www.amazon.com/Free-Market-Existentialist-Capitalism-Consumerism/dp/1119121280

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