“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
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In this delightful presentation Leonard Peikoff recounts a variety of anecdotes, both serious and humorous, from his longtime association with AynRand and her husband, Frank O’Connor. . . .
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Amid the economic collapse and backlash against the growth of government, interest in Ayn Rand exploded in 2009. Within six months of 2009, bookstore sales of Atlas Shrugged had doubled the record of 200,000 set in 2008, and they are expected to exceed 400,000. ...
Ayn Rand "To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love--because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone."
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Ayn Rand interviewed about the non-definability of “extremism.” Package-dealing as a means of evading epistemological commitment. Why naming an ideology after a living person is a statist practice, inaugurated by the Soviets.
Ayn Rand Ayn Rand discusses Christmas.
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In answer to the question of whether it is appropriate for an atheist to celebrate Christmas: "Yes, of course. A national holiday, in this country, cannot have an exclusively religious meaning. The secular meaning of the Christmas holiday is wider than the tenets of any particular religion..."
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The conflict between capitalism and communism, Ayn Rand says, is really a war of reason vs. mysticism. She warns businessmen: "You do not hire witch doctors as mechanics or engineers; do not hire them as PR men."
Ayn Rand "Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."
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If one wishes to advocate a free society—that is, capitalism—one must realize that its indispensable foundation is the principle of individual rights. If one wishes to uphold individual rights, one must realize that capitalism is the only system that can uphold and protect them. ...
Ayn Rand "Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being--not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement--not survival at any price, since there’s only one price that pays for man’s survival: reason."
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This lecture, delivered by Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum in 1969, concretizes the issue of reason vs. emotion via an analysis of two contrasting events of that year: the glorious achievement of the Apollo 11 moon flight and the mindless mud-wallowing of the Woodstock rock festival.
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The morality of capitalism is a major theme in Atlas Shrugged, which for the first time in history offered a full defense of capitalism, not just as a practical system of economics, but as the only moral social system. ...
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When accepting his Nobel Peace Prize — a ludicrous, debased award also bestowed on murderers like Yasser Arafat — President Obama spoke about his foreign policy. Pervading his Nobel speech there was a peculiar undertone of contrition. ...
Ayn Rand "Until or unless I write a comprehensive treatise on my philosophy, Dr. Peikoff's course is the only authorized presentation of the entire theoretical structure of Objectivism, i.e., the only one that I know of my own knowledge to be fully accurate."[1]
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Leonard Peikoff presents Objectivism : The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
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“Mary Ann and Charles Sures were longtime personal friends of AynRand—Mary Ann for twenty-eight years, Charles for almost twenty. Their recollections in this delightful memoir make vividly real the AynRand they knew so well.”
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New book out by Elan Journo, Fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute
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Eight years after 9/11 and in the shadow of two protracted U.S. military campaigns in the Middle East, the enemy is not only undefeated but emboldened and resurgent. What went wrong—and what should we do going forward?
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