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Rand further argued that one's selfish interests can never rationally entail the use of physical force or violence against the person or the property of another. Rand saw humans as thriving only as independent beings, reason being a faculty of the individual, with each freely expending his own time, effort and reason to sustain his own life.
Ayn Rand included Liberty 5-3000 in her early one-page outline of the novella, planning to introduce her in chapter two. [36] After writing the manuscript of Anthem in the summer of 1937, [ 37 ] Ayn Rand edited the text, making changes between her draft and the text as it was published in 1938. [ 38 ]
[281] [282] Rand is often considered one of the three most important women (along with Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson) in the early development of modern American libertarianism. [283] [284] David Nolan, one founder of the Libertarian Party, said that "without Ayn Rand, the libertarian movement would not exist". [285]
The work has received extensive, in-depth exposition and development in: A Companion to Ayn Rand (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) Wiley-Blackwell: 2016, Gotthelf and Salmieri (ed.), Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge: Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology (Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies), and How We Know: Epistemology on an ...
Rand scholar Mimi Reisel Gladstein described it as "a major contribution to Rand scholarship", although not always approachable for readers not versed in academic philosophy. [7] In 2003, Chris Matthew Sciabarra identified The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand as one of several books that reflected a growing interest in Rand after her death. [8]
Pity the philosopher. Underpaid and underappreciated, professional thinkers are doomed to a terrible dilemma: in the best case, their ideas are likely to be ignored. In the worst case, they will ...
One Rand biographer quoted Murray Rothbard as saying that he was "in agreement basically with all [Rand's] philosophy" and that it was Rand who had "convinced him of the theory of natural rights". [15] Rothbard would later become a particularly harsh critic of Rand, writing in The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult:
Should you happen to be at the meme end of lit-awareness (no judgment, of course), just to fill you in: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (1957) is an almost 1,200-page novel about a handful of proud ...