Many people still think Ayn Rand advocated a take-what-you-want-and-damn-everyone-else kind of selfishness.
Many people still think Ayn Rand advocated a take-what-you-want-and-damn-everyone-else kind of selfishness.
March 31, 2003 -- Among the perennial themes in American political life, one of the most crucial is the contest between individualism and
L'induction est la formation de connaissances générales à partir de preuves particulières. Il s'agit d'une induction si vous vous brûlez la main une fois et que, par la suite, vous...
Philosopher Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, was intimately involved in the thinking and writing that went into The Logic
Ayn Rand rejected the dichotomy between mind and body and correlate dichotomies such as theory vs. practice, the moral vs. the practical, reason vs. emotion, and love versus lust.
This program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
Ce programme audio aborde la conception du bonheur comme fin en soi chez Rand, y compris les différences dans ses formulations de cette fin...
This program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
The producers in Atlas Shrugged represent the culmination of Rand's artistic goal to portray the human ideal; and their conflict with looters and parasites is the fullest statement of what she saw as an eternal conflict in human life.
Lorsque Atlas Shrugged a été publié en octobre 1957, il parlait d'un monde très différent du nôtre, du moins en apparence. Dwigh
Stephen Hicks, PhD is The Atlas Society Senior Scholar. He teaches philosophy at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois.
L'objectivisme considère qu'il n'existe qu'une seule réalité, celle dans laquelle nous vivons. Il est évident que la réalité existe et qu'elle est ce qu'elle est.
When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the
This past January, hundreds of skeptics and humanists gathered at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas for a three-day conference on “Science in
Tara Smith’s new book, Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics, is not revolutionary, but it is a thorough and valuable work. Smith’s goal is, first....
Postmodern scholars assert the following contradictory claims....
The fundamental nature of truth was explained by Aristotle in Book IV of his Metaphysics, decisively and unforgettably, in words that are at
Back when I was writing the annual “Lands of Liberty” survey for the magazine Navigator, I would always include in the introduction a justification for evaluating the degree of democratic freedom in a country.
Fall 2009 -- Those who have for some time followed the decades-long course of Ayn Rand’s growing cultural influence may recall a time when
“Pretty soon [the young intellectual] will announce that it is time to reject the false choices of both left and right. We must all move