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Ayn Rand accredited Aristotle as " the greatest philosopher in history " and cited him as a major influence on her thinking.

* Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand

* Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature, New York, NY, New American Library, 1971

Ayn Rand argued that there is a positive harmony of interests among free, rational humans, such that no moral agent can rationally coerce another person consistently with his own long-term self-interest.

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* Rand, Ayn, Atlas Shrugged, 1957, Random House.

* Rand, Ayn, 1964, The Virtue of Selfishness.

* Objectivism ( Ayn Rand ), a philosophical system based on the writings of Ayn Rand that advocates egoism

An essay by Gary Hull ( Ayn Rand Institute ) in Capitalism magazine criticizes:

* 1905 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born American author and philosopher ( d. 1982 )

Writer Ayn Rand has argued that the protection of intellectual property is essentially a moral issue.

* Rand, Ayn.

" Patents and Copyrights " in Ayn Rand, ed.

Objectivism is a system of philosophy created by philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand ( 1905 – 1982 ) that holds: reality exists independent of consciousness ; human beings gain knowledge rationally from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive and deductive logic ; the moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or rational self-interest.

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* Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

* Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical

* Bibliography for Ayn Rand and Objectivism

In the novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand condemns nihilism quite aggressively.

* Rand, Ayn.

Objectivism is a philosophy created by Russian-American philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand ( 1905 – 1982 ).

Ayn Rand scorned the nascent libertarian movement and her intellectual heir, Leonard Peikoff, has followed her lead, refusing to associate with libertarian organizations, Cato included.

Prominent members of the Alliance included Robert Arthur, Ward Bond, Clarence Brown, Charles Coburn, Gary Cooper, Cecil B. DeMille, Walt Disney, Irene Dunne, Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Cedric Gibbons, Hedda Hopper, Leo McCarey, James Kevin McGuinness, Adolphe Menjou, George Murphy, Fred Niblo, Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Morrie Ryskind, Norman Taurog, Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, King Vidor, John Wayne, Frank Wead and Sam Wood.

The top ten in that poll, though, included four works by Ayn Rand and three by L. Ron Hubbard -- according to David Ebershoff, Modern Library's publishing director, " the voting population skewed.

She further elaborated on them in her periodicals The Objectivist Newsletter, The Objectivist, and The Ayn Rand Letter, and in non-fiction books such as Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and The Virtue of Selfishness.

Ayn Rand wrote on morality in her works The Virtue of Selfishness and Atlas Shrugged.

Late in life Ayn Rand renewed her childhood interest in stamps and became an enthusiastic collector.

Ayn Rand is mentioned by name a few times in Illuminatus !, and her novel is alluded to by Hagbard who says, " If Atlas can Shrug and Telemachus can Sneeze, why can't Satan Repent?

In her " capitalism peace theory ," Ayn Rand held that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones and that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history — a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world — from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, with the exceptions of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 ), the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ), and the American Civil War ( 1860-1863 ), which, notably, occurred in perhaps the most liberal economy in the world at the peak of the industrial revolution.

This is the understanding of people such as the author Ayn Rand who argued that only individuals have rights, according to her philosophy known as Objectivism.

Frank Heynick has argued from a study of the journal notes of Ayn Rand made in the late 1930s and of incidents in her 1943 novel The Fountainhead, that Raymond Hood's career and works provided fodder for her fictional architect Peter Keating.

After reading The Fountainhead and exchanging letters and phone calls with Ayn Rand, Branden and his then girlfriend Barbara Weidman visited Rand and her husband Frank O ’ Connor at their Los Angeles home in 1950, and the four became close friends, with Branden and Rand in particular sharing a vivid interest in philosophical exploration and development.

Even prior to her success with The Fountainhead, the novelist Ayn Rand was a friend of both Hazlitt and his wife, Frances, and it was Hazlitt who introduced Rand to Mises, bringing together the two figures who would become most associated with the defense of pure laissez-faire capitalism.

In 1927, while researching The Skyscraper for DeMille Studios, Ayn Rand visited the building and, while waiting for her contact to arrive, went to the nearby Hollywood Branch Library, where she was reunited with Frank O ' Connor, whom she had lost track of 6 months earlier when DeMille's The King of Kings finished shooting ; Rand and O ' Connor then began dating, were married in 1929 until his death in 1979.

In the United States, he became acquainted with novelist Ayn Rand, a contributing editor to a publication devoted to her ideas, The Intellectual Activist, and a speaker at The Thomas Jefferson School, an intellectual conference of similar purpose.

The author and philosopher Ayn Rand acquired the property, with the modernism evocative of her novel ' The Fountainhead ,' and resided there.

* Ayn Rand references the theme in Atlas Shrugged, her epic of a fictional USA's decline into an impoverished kleptocracy.

He appeared on radio shows with Ayn Rand, and devoted considerable attention to her ideas in his ethics textbook Human Conduct.

The books below focus on Ayn Rand's life or her literary works.

The second edition of Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology contains a transcript of Ayn Rand's " Question-and-Answer " session with various professors of philosophy, mathematics, and physics about her epistemology that followed a lecture series she gave on epistemology between 1969 and 1971.

A member of her circle, David Kelley read Ayn Rand's favorite poem, " If —", by Rudyard Kipling, at her funeral in 1982.

Twentieth century philosopher Ayn Rand referred to educators of the time as " the Comprachicos of the mind " in her article " The Comprachicos.

While doing research for her book Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand learned the operation of the train, and subsequently devised a fictional company-the " Twentieth Century Motor Company "-which would be important to the novel's plot.