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
Induktion ist die Bildung von allgemeinem Wissen aus besonderen Beweisen. Es ist Induktion, wenn man sich einmal die Hand verbrennt und danach immer...
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...
Dieses Audioprogramm befasst sich mit Rands Auffassung von Glück als Selbstzweck, einschließlich der Unterschiede in ihren Formulierungen dieses Zwecks...
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.
Als Atlas Shrugged im Oktober 1957 veröffentlicht wurde, handelte es sich um eine Welt, die sich zumindest oberflächlich gesehen sehr von der unseren unterschied. Dwigh
Stephen Hicks, PhD, ist Senior Scholar der Atlas-Gesellschaft. Er lehrt Philosophie am Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois.
Der Objektivismus geht davon aus, dass es nur eine Realität gibt, nämlich die, in der wir leben. Es ist selbstverständlich, dass die Realität existiert und so ist, wie sie ist; unsere Aufgabe ist es
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....
Postmoderne Gelehrte stellen folgende widersprüchliche Behauptungen auf: ....
Die grundlegende Natur der Wahrheit wurde von Aristoteles in Buch IV seiner Metaphysik erklärt, entschieden und unvergesslich, in Worten, die auf
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