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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

* 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 ).

In the field of ethics, Kelley has argued in works such as Unrugged Individualism ( 1996 ) and The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand ( 2000 ) that Objectivists should pay more attention to the virtue of benevolence and place less emphasis on issues of moral sanction.

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.

Philosopher Ayn Rand argued that the notion of a fetus having a right to life is " vicious nonsense " and stated, " An embryo has no rights ... a child cannot acquire any rights until it is born.

Ayn Rand, for instance, argued that " man against nature " is not a conflict because nature has no free will and thus can make no choices.

The second of these, published in 1995, is Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, which explores Ayn Rand's college influences and intellectual roots — particularly the role of Rand's philosophy teacher, philosopher Nicholas Onufrievich Lossky — and argued that Rand's philosophical method was dialectical in nature.

John Ridpath, a director of the Ayn Rand Institute, has argued that The Russian Radical is postmodern and deconstructionist in its overall orientation, that it is a " worthless product " of contemporary academia, and that on the whole it was " preposterous in its thesis, destructive in its purpose, and tortuously numbing in its content.

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.

Peart has said that although he had read Anthem, he was not consciously thinking of the story when he wrote the song ; however when the similarities were pointed out, he realized that there must have been some unconscious influence, and gave credit to " the genius of Ayn Rand " in the liner notes.

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

By 1609, according to the list of Ayn Ali, there were 32 eyalets.

In addition, however, Ayn Ali noted that there were five ‘ sovereign sanjaks ’, which their lords disposed of ‘ as private property ’, and which were outside the system of provincial government.

In Lebanon, Ayn Ali refers to the Druze chieftains with the note: ‘ there are non-Muslim lords in the mountains .’ There were other autonomous enclaves in the Empire, whether or not they received formal recognition as sanjaks but, by the 16th century, these were exceptional.

The latter recommended him to the Bishop of Sidon and Beiteddine, Abdullah al-Bustani, who sent him at the age of 11 to the school at ‘ Ayn Warqa, the most famous school of that period, to continue his studies there.

According to Ayn Rand there is no such thing as “ a right to a job ”— there is only the right of free trade, that is: a man ’ s right to take a job if another man chooses to hire him.

The Ayn Rand Society, dedicated to fostering the scholarly study of Objectivism, is affiliated with the American Philosophical Association's Eastern Division.

Socratic Puzzles ( 1997 ) is a collection of papers that range in topic from Ayn Rand and Austrian economics to animal rights, while his last production, Invariances ( 2001 ), applies insights from physics and biology to questions of objectivity in such areas as the nature of necessity and moral value.

* October 12 – Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged is published.

" is a spoof of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

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?

He is also comparable to a degree to Ragnar Danneskjold, a libertarian pirate in the Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged, which receives several mentions in the chronicles.

* Ayn Rand included in her book Atlas Shrugged a character who is a modern-day Scandinavian pirate, to whom she gave the first name " Ragnar ".

Jenin is built on the ruins of the Canaanite city of Ayn Jenim.

When planning the revolution, Mike is described by Mannie as " our Scarlet Pimpernel, our John Galt, our Swamp Fox, our man of mystery ", referring to the works of the Baroness Orczy and Ayn Rand as well as to the history of the American Revolution.

Similarly, in the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Howard Roark is chosen to design a resort called Monodnack Valley and it is subsequently revealed that the investors had sold 200 % of the shares, convinced that the project would be a flop and that they had chosen Howard Roark as the worst possible person for the job.

Part of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead is set at Clayton.

The Great Northern Railway is considered to have inspired ( in broad outline, not in specific details ) the Taggart Transcontinental railroad in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand.

Love Letters is a 1945 film adapted by Ayn Rand from the novel Pity My Simplicity by Christopher Massie.

She is noted ( with Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson ) as one of the founders of the American libertarian movement.

Bearing similarities to the novels Anthem by Ayn Rand and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the setting for the story is an ant colony in a park across a river from New York City, over the span of four days.