OBJECTIVISM

A book salesman once asked Ayn Rand to describe the essence of her philosophy "while standing on one foot"...in which she replied:

(1) Metaphysics:Objective Reality
(2) Epistemology:Reason
(3) Ethics:Self-interest
(4) Politics:Capitalism

If you want this translated into simple language, it would read: 1. "nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed" or "Wishing won't make it so." 2. "you can't eat your cake and have it, too." 3. "Man is an end in himself." 4. "give me liberty or give me death."

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REFERENCES

non-fiction
  • "Ayn Rand...A Sense of Life", (companion book to documentary) Micheal Paxton, 1998
  • "For the New Intellectual", Ayn Rand, 1961
  • "Journals of Ayn Rand", edited by David Harriman, 1997
  • "Letters of Ayn Rand", edited by Michael S. Berliner, 1995
  • "The Ayn Rand Column", Los Angeles Times, 1962...compiled 1991
  • "The Ayn Rand Lexicon -Objectivism from A to Z", edited by Harry Binswanger, 1986

fiction
  • "Anthem", Ayn Rand, 1946
  • "Atlas Shrugged", Ayn Rand, 1957
  • "The Fountainhead", Ayn Rand, 1943
  • "We the Living", Ayn Rand, 1936
video
  • "Ayn Rand...A Sense of Life", Michael Paxton, narrated by Sharon Gless, 1998
  • "The Passion of Ayn Rand", from a book by Barbara Branden, 1998

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