Myth: Ayn Rand Wasn't a Serious Philosopher
On August 2nd, 2009, The New York Times profiled BB&T’s John Allison , who put Ayn Rand’s principles to work at that bank when he was CEO...
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On August 2nd, 2009, The New York Times profiled BB&T’s John Allison , who put Ayn Rand’s principles to work at that bank when he was CEO...
March 31, 2003 -- Among the perennial themes in American political life, one of the most crucial is the contest between individualism and
Philosopher Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, was intimately involved in the thinking and writing that went into The Logic
Induction is the formation of general knowledge from particular evidence. It is induction if you burn your hand once and thereafter always..
This program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
This audio program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
This program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
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.
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.
Objectivism holds that there is one reality, the one in which we live. It is self-evident that reality exists and is what it is; our job is
Stephen Hicks, PhD is The Atlas Society Senior Scholar. He teaches philosophy at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois.
When Atlas Shrugged was published in October of 1957, it spoke to a world that was very different from ours, on the surface at least. Dwigh
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....
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.
The fundamental nature of truth was explained by Aristotle in Book IV of his Metaphysics, decisively and unforgettably, in words that are at
“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
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