Myth: Ayn Rand was for Dog-Eat-Dog Selfishness
Many people still think Ayn Rand advocated a take-what-you-want-and-damn-everyone-else kind of selfishness.
May 2, 2011
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Many people still think Ayn Rand advocated a take-what-you-want-and-damn-everyone-else kind of selfishness.
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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...
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.
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
Stephen Hicks, PhD is The Atlas Society Senior Scholar. He teaches philosophy at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois.
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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.
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“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