Induction is the formation of general knowledge from particular evidence. It is induction if you burn your hand once and thereafter always..
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...
This audio program addresses Rand's conception of happiness as an end in itself, including differences in her formulations of that end...
This analogy with the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe is intended to suggest that a similar movement within Islam would....
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.
On the 16th of October, 2010, I tramped into London along with two thousand other minds to attend The Amazing Meeting, the major conference
Spring 2011 -- THE WATER began swallowing Susan Lemaster’s home at 2 a.m. July 22. She was sleeping when her 27-year-old daughter, trembling
Atlas Shrugged is structured in three major parts, each of which consists of ten chapters. The parts and chapters are named, and the titles
What gives her fiction compelling power? The Literary Art of Ayn Rand, a book published by The Atlas Society, brings together seven expert
Americans typically measure their freedom by looking backward or forward—backward to the early republic or forward to their ideal republic.
In her writings on art, Ayn Rand put great emphasis on the value of structural unity in an artwork. Holding that an important purpose of ar
This selective listing includes the novel's more noteworthy characters.....
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
One day in the 1940’s, a young reporter asked Ayn Rand about the new novel he heard that she was planning.
Scholars, students, and fans of Ayn Rand ’s masterwork, Atlas Shrugged , often find it difficult to grasp the complex details of its plot..
Stephen Hicks, PhD is The Atlas Society Senior Scholar. He teaches philosophy at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois.
Ayn Rand 's ideas inspired many people; one of them was me. When I began reading Atlas Shrugged in the summer of 1964, I had no idea that