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News and Highlights - The Ayn Rand Institute

News and Highlights - The Ayn Rand Institute

The Venus Project The Vocabula Review - October 2011 - Table of Contents Relevance of Ayn Rand to India | This WordPress.com site is the bee's knees Ayn Rand | Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and Individualism Ayn Rand is America’s most controversial individualist. She was a bold woman who produced brilliant works fusing fiction and philosophy. Her best-selling novels, like Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, have sold millions of copies and continue to influence independent thinkers and celebrities the world over, from Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales to Angelina Jolie and Hugh Hefner. My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. — Ayn Rand, Appendix to Atlas Shrugged Rand cut a striking figure, with her long-stemmed cigarette holder and intense gaze. She penned philosophical non-fiction works of such originality and power that she was credited by a small group of stunned intellectuals as having single-handedly solved an ancient philosophical puzzle. The new philosophy which she founded through her books and essays is called Objectivism.

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