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Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
1,208 wordsNo thinker, perhaps, has had more influence upon contemporary libertarians than the novelist and non-academic philosopher, Ayn Rand. For that reason alone, she deserves attention; however, many of her arguments have been misunderstood, misrepresented or ignored. As George Smith has commented, there has appeared relatively little in the way of competent reflection of Ayn Rand as a philosopher. Accounts written by [her] admirers are frequently eulogistic and uncritical, where as accounts written b...
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Ayn Rand Moral Principle
1,164 words... as turned down by 12 publishers). For example, in Atlas Shrugged, Rand obscured historical realities to reinforce her argument and once again exaggerated the situation. Thus, the Taggart Railroad of the novel, the central setting, may strike someone with an average knowledge of American history as the kind of thing that never existed. Most people know that the transcontinental railroads were built with federal subsidies and federal land grants, (which is ironic within itself. Rands theory de...
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Ayn Rand Her Life And Philosophy
913 wordsAyn Rand was a novelist and philosopher who influenced many peoples way of thinking in very profound ways. She was born in Russia in 1905 and came to America at the age of twenty-one where she published her first novel, We The Living, in 1936. The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and brought Ayn Rand international fame. Although she considered herself primarily a fiction writer, she realized that in order to create heroic fictional characters, she had to identify the philosophic principles whi...
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Good Or Bad Moral Relativism
4,406 wordsMORAL OBJECTIVISM 1 What is the issue The present essay is a defense of a view called moral objectivism and attack on its opposite, subjectivism or moral relativism. Moral relativism is probably the subject concerning which more nonsense has been written and said in modern times than any other in moral philosophy. I suspect this is partly because people wish to provide arguments in favor of relativism without first having a clear idea of what their thesis is; partly because the authors' argument...
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True Or False Moral Judgements
4,317 words... ons of deaths, that it impoverishes the country in which it is adopted, and that it greatly restricts people's freedom. I think that is a good argument. It certainly is not some kind of simple logical fallacy, as the concept of 'the naturalistic fallacy' would presumably imply, since I am deriving a moral judgement from other, non-moral judgements. It might be, and standard is, replied that the argument presupposes certain implicit moral judgements, that life, prosperity, and freedom are goo...
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Source Of Knowledge Sources Of Knowledge
1,178 wordsKnowledge can be defined as the fact or state of knowing. There are many different aspects of knowledge. Knowledge comes from many different places. There are great numbers of philosophers who have tried to describe where knowledge comes from. Also knowledge can be divided into different parts according to the way we receive knowledge. There are many things that related to the knowledge of something. The development of questions in philosophy about knowledge began back in the day of Plato. They ...
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Peter Keating Second Hand
1,796 wordsI. INTRODUCTION There are some literary beginnings so well-known as immediately to call to mind the books in which they appear: "Call me Ishmael"; 1 "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times"; 2 and, increasingly, "Howard Roark laughed. " 3 So begins the novel, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Published in 1943, The Fountainhead continues to sell 100, 000 copies a year. 4 For millions it provides the introduction to a philosophical / social movement known as "Objectivism. " It has been s...
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Perfect Society Apple One
408 wordsObjectivism Objectivism can be broken into 5 main categories. They are Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. Each of these makes up Ayn Rand's philosophy, which is called objectivism. Metaphysics is the belief that everything one knows they know only because they believe it to be true. Everything that is known can't be truly proven to be true because it is based on our perception of things. If a tabletop is hard, it is only because one perceives it to be hard and has been ...
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Virtual Reality Learning Environments
1,339 words... n control? "i fear of denied access: Whether VR is a wonderful or a terrible place, everyone should have the right to be there; who gets in and how? "i fear of abandonment: what if VR is so compelling that people don " it want to come out, who will mind reality? If I don " it get virtual, will I be left all alone? Fear of the technology may be both the most subtle and the most important challenge to public acceptance of VR as a suitable medium for children. Once we acknowledge this fear, we ...
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Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
2,421 wordsThe Joys Of Contriving Literature (Why Ayn The Joys Of Contriving Literature (Why Ayn Rands Theories Dont Hold Water) No thinker, perhaps, has had more influence upon contemporary libertarians than the novelist and non-academic philosopher, Ayn Rand. For that reason alone, she deserves attention; however, many of her arguments have been misunderstood, misrepresented or ignored. As George Smith has commented, ? there has appeared relatively little in the way of competent reflection of Ayn Rand as...
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Buy And Sell Ayn Rand
688 wordsYou do not have to be a true objectivist Objectivism holds that society functions best when individuals pursue their self-interests. According to Ayn Rand, human understanding and acceptance of reality form the basis of judgment and values. Human beings must live for themselves, neither sacrificing any part of their natures or goals to other people, nor bending others wills to their own. In this scheme, love is achieved fully only by those individuals who possess the highest self-esteem, which i...
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