Nov 27, 2013 - By Ayn Rand. In March 1974, Ayn Rand faced the improbable task of lecturing on the crucial importance of philosophy—to the graduating class.
Browse Now. Search Search Philosophy: Who Needs It Most people dismiss as irrelevant to life, but as Ayn Rand shows in novels like and, living by the correct fundamental ideas is as crucial to human existence as food and water. The articles in this collection explain and develop Rand’s unique view on the role of philosophy in man’s life. In the titular essay, “Philosophy: Who Needs It,” Rand shows why, in order to deal with concrete, real-life problems, an individual needs some implicit or explicit view of the world, of man’s place in it, and of what goals and values he ought to pursue.
The abstract premises an individual holds may be true and consistent, reached by conscientious thought—and the purpose of the science of philosophy is to teach one how to achieve this—or his premises may be a heap of clashing ideas unwittingly absorbed from the culture around him. But either way, she argues, the power of philosophy is inescapable.
It is something everyone should be concerned with. How to properly approach and study philosophy is then discussed in “Philosophic Detection” (ch. Subsequent essays reveal the true power of philosophy, for good or ill, in human affairs. In “Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World” (ch.
7), for instance, Ayn Rand discusses how a culture’s political system is the product of its philosophic ideas. She explains why rational ideas lead to freedom—and why periods dominated by religion and other irrational doctrines are periods of, of, of. Her seminal essay “Causality vs. 10) explains what mankind’s teachings actually do to an individual life by contrasting a person who obeys the to be with a person who accepts her alternative of. For the former, morality is a debilitating impediment to achieving his values; for the latter, morality is a necessary means to attaining his own happiness. Other essays underscore the power of philosophy by highlighting its influence in such unexpected areas as the mentality and government policies driving U.S.
Monetary (ch. 12), the appeal of chess in Soviet Russia (ch. 6), and the unnamed premises shaping the Supreme Court’s ominous rulings on obscenity (ch. If you wonder why Ayn Rand was so passionate about philosophy, this book will help you to understand.
Table of Contents. Introduction. Philosophy: Who Needs It. Philosophical Detection. The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made. The Missing Link.
Selfishness Without a Self. An Open Letter to Boris Spassky. Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World. From the Horse’s Mouth. Kant Versus Sullivan.
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Causality Versus Duty. An Untitled Letter. Egalitarianism and Inflation. The Stimulus and the Response. The Establishing of an Establishment.
Censorship: Local and Express. Fairness Doctrine for Education. What Can One Do?.
Don’t Let It Go. Index (Paperback; 228 pages) Additional Resources:. About the Lexicon. About Ayn Rand. Other Resources.
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But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. AYN RAND, The Fountainhead Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality. AYN RAND, Journals of Ayn Rand At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains.
Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right.
And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled. AYN RAND, Anthem To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
AYN RAND, The Fountainhead Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage-the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors. AYN RAND, The Virtue of Selfishness Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions. AYN RAND, Philosophy: Who Needs It? Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. AYN RAND, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism 'This is pity,' he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder.
He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue. AYN RAND, The Fountainhead Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own-they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. AYN RAND, Atlas Shrugged Don't set out to raze all shrines-you'll frighten men.
Enshrine mediocrity-and the shrines are razed. AYN RAND, The Fountainhead Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. AYN RAND, The Fountainhead Every great new invention was denounced.
The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful.
But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won. AYN RAND, The Fountainhead The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self-esteem will answer: 'No.'
Altruism says: 'Yes.'