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ontology and, 191–92, 193, 196
organicism and, 60
perception and, 192–93
philosophy and, 194–95
psycho-epistemology and, 192–93
realism and, 194, 195
reason and, 196–97
sense of life and, 181, 191–92, 193, 238
tacit dimensions and, 238
units and, 191
values and, 191–92
visibility and, 238
articulation
action and, 198, 200–201
consciousness and, 197–201, 240
culture and, 299–300
epistemology and, 197–201
ethics and, 198, 200, 227, 229
humankind and, 299–300
language and, 291
philosophy and, 197–201
rationalism and, 211
rationality and, 229, 339–40
reason and, 200–201
sense of life and, 299–300
social theory and, 211, 299–300
values and, 200
virtues and, 229
volition and, 200
Askoldov, Sergei Alekseev, 459nn. 6–7
atheism, 67–68, 102, 108
Atlas Shrugged (film), 401n. 3
Atlas Shrugged (Rand)
Anthem (Rand) and, 104, 110
art and, 110
atheism and, 108
capitalism and, 108
charity and, 440n. 86
conception and, 196
contradiction and, 130, 422n. 29
dialectics and, 106–10
emotions and, 170, 171, 174–75
epistemology and, 91, 118
ethics and, 110
force and, 252
happiness and, 241
honesty and, 292
humankind and, 252, 351–52
idealism and, 216
ideal man and, 350
influence of, 1, 12
life and, 221
Marxism and, 108
materialism and, 108–9, 216
mind-body dichotomy and, 109–10
money and, 270
Objectivism and, 108
ontology and, 118, 124–25, 130
pride in, 232
reason and, 108–9, 154–55, 170, 171, 174–75
relations and, 106–10, 280–81
religion and, 108
reviews of, 108
sex and, 109, 237
spirituality and, 108–9
statism and, 107–8, 320–21
utopianism and, 343–44
Atlas Society, 114, 402n. 7
atomism, 48, 58–59, 59–61, 133–34
attributes, 135–36, 157
Aufhebung, 9, 25, 34, 355
Augustine, Saint, 122
Austrian school of economics, 105, 265, 267, 309–10, 322, 345. See also Mises, Ludwig von; Hayek, F. A.
anarcho-capitalism and, 260, 450n. 22
class analysis and, 454n. 92
Marxism and, 407n. 28, 443n. 69, 450–51n. 24
subjective value theory and, 444n. 70
authoritarianism, 12–13, 247, 452n. 53. See also totalitarianism
autonomy, 99–100, 288–89. See also freedom; volition
awareness
action and, 170–71
childhood and, 177–82, 184–85
conception and, 156–61, 170–73
consciousness and, 149–54, 154–55, 170–73, 177–82, 184–85
context and, 172
creativity and, 170–71
efficacy and, 202
emotions and, 170–73, 184–85
epistemology and, 170–73
ethics and, 224, 227, 229
method and, 181–82
mind-body dichotomy and, 184–85
perception and, 156–57, 171–72
psychology and, 177–82, 184–85
rationality and, 228, 229
reason and, 154–55, 170–73, 175, 184–85
relations and, 173
self-esteem and, 238
virtues and, 228, 229
axioms. See concepts
Ayer, A. J., 58
Ayn Rand Archives, 395, 467n. 7
Ayn Rand Institute, 364, 366–67, 384, 385, 402n. 7, 466n. 2, 467n. 7
Ayn Rand Society, 402n. 7
Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Sciabarra)
criticism of, 14, 18
educational records and, 363, 366, 378, 381, 385, 391, 393
overview of, xi, 2–3, 8–10
revision of, ix–x, xii
back-seat driving, 427n. 40. See also front-seat driving
Bacon, Francis, 137
Bakhtin, Michael, 462n. 23
Bakunin, Mikhail, 260
Barazov, Vladimir A., 32–33
Barnes, Hazel, 155, 176, 220
Barry, Norman P., 154, 272, 350, 353, 425n. 1
Bartley, W. W., 6
beards, 404n. 29
begging the question, 127
being. See ontology
Bely, Andrey, 194
Bentham, Jeremy, 255
Berberova, Nina, 22, 91
Berdyaev, Nicolas, 407n. 27
Berg, L. S., 75, 371, 379
Berger, Peter L., 419n. 48
Berliner, Michael, 461n. 19
Bernstein, Richard, 12
Bettelheim, Bruno, 288
Bible, 1
Binswanger, Harry
on consciousness, 423n. 35
on identity, 130
on life, 222, 226
on mind, 211
on name, 406n. 1
on nationalism, 454n. 100
on relations, 423n. 34
science and, 123, 436n. 23
on unintended consequences, 209
biology, 371
Blanshard, Brand, 55, 57–58, 424n. 53
Blok, Aleksandr, 31–32, 77, 460n. 7
Blumenthal, Allan, 113, 188, 430n. 44, 432n. 67
Blumenthal, Joan Mitchell, 113
body. See mind-body dichotomy
Boehm-Bawerk, Eugen, 407n. 28, 450n. 24
Bogdanov, Aleksandr A., 32–33, 353
boom-bust cycle, 313–14
boomerang argument, 422n. 26
Borichevsky, Ivan Abramovich, 82, 365–66, 386, 387
Branden, Barbara
on childhood, 65
in Collective, 402n. 8
on education, 11, 67, 76–77, 79, 84, 85, 363–64, 366, 394, 395, 414n. 33, 415n. 54, 463n. 4
on emotions, 176
on House Un-American Activities Committee, 416n. 72
illustrations of, 112, 113
on memory, 83, 85, 370
on name, 406n. 1
Objectivism and, 12, 114
The Passion of Ayn Rand, 384, 394, 395
on philosophy, 403n. 24
psychology and, 167, 181–82, 430n. 34
Rand breaks with, 111–13
on reason, 176
on religion, 418n. 27
on Roosevelt, 316
social metaphysics and, 445n. 15
on synthesis, 63–64
on We the Living (Rand), 417n. 23
“Who Is Ayn Rand,” 384, 395
work of generally, 7
Branden, Nathaniel
on action, 214, 222
archetypes and, 334
Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 457n. 20
on autonomy, 288–89
on awareness, 202
on biology, 439n. 67
on Blanshard, 411n. 32
on causality, 133
in Collective, 402n. 8
on concepts, 127
on consciousness, 181, 200, 293, 298–99
on culture, 298–99, 433n. 32
on dialectical materialism, 13
The Disowned Self, 175–76
on education, 303–4, 394, 395
on efficacy, 202–3, 212
on emotions, 171–72, 173–77, 183–88
on enlightenment, 344
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nbsp; on focus, 426nn. 26–27
on gender, 186
on happiness, 241, 243
on history, 457n. 22
on humankind, 251–52
illustrations of, 112, 113, 168, 284
on individualism, 357
on integration, 136
on intellectualizing, 183–84
language and, 292
on libertarianism, 264–65
on love, 238–40
on Manichaeism, 246, 440n. 89
on mind-body dichotomy, 184–85
on moralism, 247
on mysticism, 302, 406n. 5
Objectivism and, 11, 12, 114, 420n. 63
on pride, 233–34
pseudo-self-esteem and, 445n. 14
psychology and, 167, 181–82, 283–89, 420n. 64, 430n. 34, 431nn. 51, 54–55, 61
on racism, 325
Rand breaks with, 3, 4, 111–13, 167
on reason, 171–72, 173–77, 183–88
on science, 421n. 20
on self-esteem, 233–35, 238–40
on sense of life, 178–79
on sex, 187, 439n. 64
on Szasz, 458n. 51
on values, 225
on visibility, 238–40
on We the Living (Rand), 417n. 22
work of generally, 2, 7
Britting, Jeff, 384–85, 467n. 7
Buckley, William, 330, 419n. 48
Bulgakov, Serge, 28, 33, 36, 40, 43
Burns, Jennifer, 467n. 7
Capital (Marx), 5, 231–32, 261, 269
capitalism
action and, 155–56
anarchism and, 248, 260–64, 307
Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 108
Austrian school theory and, 267, 309–14
boom-bust cycle in, 313–14
collectivism and, 268–69, 310–11
communism and, 337
consciousness and, 269, 272, 301–2
creativity and, 271–73
culture and, 265–66, 273–74, 337–38
dialectics and, 8, 13, 18–19, 236, 260–61, 262, 263, 268–70, 274
dualism and, 13, 260–61, 262, 263, 268–70, 274, 335–37, 359–60
education and, 378
efficacy and, 269–70
epistemology and, 118
ethics and, 265–66, 267, 323–24
exploitation and, 271
fascism and, 310–11
foreign aid and, 319–20
fragmentation and, 61, 274, 327–29
freedom and, 269, 287
history and, 265–66, 310–12, 335–38
individualism and, 264, 268–69, 270
irrationality and, 273–74
language and, 296
libertarianism and, 248–49, 260–74
Marxism and, 13, 266
mind-body dichotomy and, 269
money and, 270–71, 312–14
Objectivism and, 110–11, 118, 120, 348–49, 349–50
“The Only Path to Tomorrow” (Rand) and, 105
ontology and, 118
philosophy and, 349–50
power and, 301–2, 311, 312, 314
productive work and, 268–73, 282, 307, 308–9
property and, 270
psycho-epistemology and, 312–13
racism and, 327–29, 330
radicalism and, 266, 274, 279, 350
rationalism and, 208
reason and, 155–56, 261, 268, 271, 336
reification and, 267–68
relations and, 282, 286, 287, 301–2
rights and, 256, 264, 270
Russian culture and, 23
selfishness and, 264–65
social theory and, 248–49, 260–74, 307–14
society and, 267–68
statism and, 260–64, 265, 282, 307–14, 319–20, 323–24, 327–29, 336, 337–38
trade and, 269–70, 315
unintended consequences and, 210–11
values and, 273, 307
welfare and, 314
Capitalism (Rand), 110, 111, 264
Caputo, John, 212
causality
attributes and, 135–36
circularity and, 128
concepts and, 125, 132–33, 133–34, 135, 137
consciousness and, 125, 132
context and, 133
cosmology and, 133, 139–40
entity and, 135
epistemology and, 124, 132–33, 139–40
ethics and, 242, 243
history and, 340–42
identity and, 132–33, 133–34, 135, 137
Lossky and, 49, 132
materialism and, 132
ontology and, 123, 124, 125, 132–33, 133–34, 135, 137, 139–40
relations and, 135, 242
science and, 123, 124, 132
volition and, 137
censorship, 70, 86, 320, 331, 374, 455n. 126
“A Challenge to Russian Radical-and Ayn Rand” (Sciabarra), xii, 393–400
Chambers, Whittaker, 108
character, 62–63. See also personality
charity, 245–46, 260
Chekov, Anton, 66
Chernyshevsky, Nicholas G., 27
Chicherin, B. N., 29, 141–42
childhood, 177–82, 184–85, 347
Childs, Roy, 416n. 70, 433n. 29, 442n. 34, 450n. 22, 454n. 93
China, 320
Christianity, 25, 30, 32, 76, 77, 92, 131, 375
circularity, 127–28, 145, 225, 226, 242
civilization, 32
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 1
cognition. See consciousness
Collective, 402n. 8
collectivism
Anthem (Rand) and, 104–5
capitalism and, 265–66, 268–69, 310–11
communism and, 106
dualism and, 354–55
ethics and, 219
fascism and, 310–11
force and, 253
The Fountainhead (Rand) and, 102–4, 106
humankind and, 250–51
individualism and, 73, 250–51
Lossky and, 44
mysticism and, 251
“The Only Path to Tomorrow” (Rand) and, 105–6
ontology and, 133–34
organicism and, 250–51
racism and, 325
Russian philosophy and, 250–51
“Screen Guide for Americans” (Rand) and, 106
sobornost’ and, 251
social theory and, 250–51, 268–69
statism and, 37–38, 310–11
unity and, 37–38
Commissariat of Enlightenment, 69–71, 74, 368, 390
communism
capitalism and, 337
Christianity and, 92
collectivism and, 106
dualism and, 97, 98
early writings on, 91–92
fact-value dichotomy and, 216
The Fountainhead (Rand) and, 103–4
House Un-American Activities Committee and, 88–89
humankind and, 350–52
individualism and, 98
religion and, 92, 97
“Screen Guide for Americans” (Rand) and, 88, 106
sobornost’ and, 98
statism and, 308
totalitarianism and, 88–89, 94
in We the Living (Rand), 37–38, 91, 93–98
community, 23–24, 25, 26–27, 355–58. See also society
composition, fallacy of, 250, 441n. 7
“The Comprachicos” (Rand), 177
Comte, Auguste, 421n. 9
conceit, 232–33
concentration camps, 287–89
conception
abstraction and, 157–61
action and, 170–71
art and, 191–93, 195–97
Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 196
attributes and, 157
awareness and, 156–61, 170–73
consciousness and, 149, 152, 156–57, 170–73, 180–81, 189–91
con
text and, 172
creativity and, 170–71
culture and, 302–6
differentiation and, 157, 160–61
education and, 302–6
emotions and, 170–73
empiricism and, 205–6
epistemology and, 150, 152, 156–61, 170–73, 189–91
ethics and, 224, 227
existents and, 157
focus and, 156–57
identity and, 157
integration and, 156–57, 159–61
irrationality and, 302–6
literature and, 192–93, 195–97
mathematics and, 159, 160–61
measurement and, 160–61, 189
objectivism and, 161
Objectivism and, 189–91, 347
omniscience and, 158
perception and, 150, 152, 156–57, 161, 171–72
racism and, 325–27
radicalism and, 159–60
reason and, 156–57, 170–73
reification and, 159
relations and, 156–61, 173
sensation and, 150, 152, 156–57
sense of life and, 180–81
social theory and, 302–6
statism and, 323
subjectivism and, 161
units in, 157, 158–59
volition and, 156–57, 161
concepts. See also causality; conception; existence; ideas; identity
abstraction and, 162
anti-concepts, 294–96, 297, 300, 304, 305, 316, 323, 325, 326, 327
art and, 191–93
attributes and, 135–36
causality and, 125, 132–33, 133–34, 135, 137
circularity and, 127–28
context and, 131, 133, 136–37, 163–66
definitions and, 162–66
differentiation and, 162–63
dualism and, 125
empiricism and, 204–8
entity and, 132, 161–66
epistemology and, 123, 124–33, 158–59, 160–61, 161–66
ethics and, 227
existents and, 165
government as, 264
integration and, 161–66
intrinsicism and, 162–66
language and, 278, 293–96, 427n. 44
logic and, 126–30
Marxism and, 126
monism and, 131–32
objectivism and, 165–66
Objectivism and, 138
ontology and, 123, 124–33, 138–39, 161–63, 165–66
philosophy and, 123
power and, 278, 293–96
rationalism and, 131, 204–8
realism and, 144
relations and, 125, 128, 134–37, 161–66, 278, 293–96
science and, 123
senses as, 132
stolen concept, fallacy of, 126, 127–28, 131, 225
subjectivism and, 162–66
units and, 162–63
volition as, 132
conceptualism, 146
consciousness
abstraction and, 157–61, 178, 196–97, 213
action and, 149, 170–71, 198, 200–201, 214, 240, 253–54, 340
art and, 181, 191–93, 196–97, 238
articulation and, 197–201, 240
awareness and, 149–54, 154–55, 170–73, 177–82, 184–85
capitalism and, 269, 272, 301–2
causality and, 125, 132