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  articulation and, 197–201

  Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 91, 118

  awareness and, 170–73

  capitalism and, 118

  causality and, 124, 132–33, 139–40

  circularity and, 127–28, 145

  conception and, 150, 152, 156–61, 170–73, 189–91

  concepts in, 123, 124–33, 158–59, 160–61, 161–66

  consciousness and, 143–61, 172–73, 189–91, 213–14, 240, 244–45, 252

  context and, 153, 163–66, 172

  contradiction and, 129, 145, 148

  cosmology and, 139–40

  creativity and, 145, 170–71, 196–97

  definitions and, 162–66

  dialectics and, 148

  differentiation and, 157, 160–61, 162–63

  dualism and, 143–49

  efficacy and, 202, 213–14, 283

  emotions and, 169–73, 189–91

  entity and, 139–40, 161–66

  ethics and, 215, 221–22, 226–27, 240, 244–47

  existence and, 146, 149, 169

  existents and, 165

  faith and, 140

  focus and, 152–54

  history and, 339–40

  idealism and, 143–49

  identity and, 148–49, 150–51, 157

  integration and, 150, 156–57, 159–61, 161–66, 240

  intrinsicism and, 144–49, 162–66

  Kant and, 51, 52, 139–42, 145, 146–47

  libertarianism and, 248–49

  life and, 221–22, 226–27

  literature and, 192–93, 196–97

  logic and, 127–28, 129, 154–55

  Lossky and, 43–45, 46, 50–53, 59–61, 142, 144–47, 170

  mathematics and, 159, 160–61

  monism and, 131–32

  mysticism and, 140, 144–49, 169–70

  objectivism and, 144–49, 150–51, 165–66

  Objectivism and, 116–20, 124, 143, 144, 148–49, 189–91, 283

  omniscience and, 147, 163, 213

  ontology and, 120, 121, 124, 126, 127–28, 139–42, 146–47, 156, 161–63, 165–66

  order and, 134

  organicism and, 59–61, 127

  perception and, 143–52, 154, 156–57, 161, 171–72

  philosophy and, 339–40

  psychology and, 167, 168, 244–47

  radicalism and, 159–60

  rationalism and, 211, 213–14

  rationality and, 228

  realism and, 143–49

  reason and, 144, 145, 154–56, 164–65, 169–73, 189–91, 213–14, 215, 240

  relations and, 51–52, 117, 128, 134–37, 150, 156–57, 161–66, 173

  religion and, 169–70

  Russian philosophy and, 170

  science and, 124, 151–52, 213

  sensation and, 149–52, 156–57

  senses and, 144, 149–52, 154

  skepticism and, 146

  social theory and, 154, 211, 332

  subjectivism and, 144–49, 150–51, 162–66

  tacit dimensions and, 197–201

  truth and, 145

  units and, 162–63

  unity and, 117

  values and, 221–22, 226–27

  volition and, 152–54, 161, 252

  equality. See egalitarianism

  essence-accident distinction, 62–63

  ethics

  action and, 220–21, 222, 224–27

  altruism and, 30, 216–21, 227, 235–36, 279–80

  art and, 110, 193–94

  articulation and, 198, 200, 227, 229

  Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 110

  awareness and, 224, 227, 229

  capitalism and, 265–66, 267, 323–24

  causality and, 242, 243

  collectivism and, 219

  conception and, 224, 227

  consciousness and, 220, 224, 227, 228–29, 244–45

  context and, 229–30

  culture and, 198, 343–45

  dialectics and, 220–21, 226–27, 228–29, 236, 242–43

  dualism and, 220–21, 228–29, 244–47, 321

  duty and, 295

  egalitarianism and, 300

  egoism and, 216–21, 235–36

  emotions and, 219, 228–29, 430n. 36

  epistemology and, 215, 221–22, 226–27, 240, 244–47

  evil in, 244–47

  existence and, 220, 221–22

  facts and, 215–21, 222

  force and, 252–53

  The Fountainhead (Rand) and, 219

  history and, 230–32, 239–40

  individualism and, 219, 255–56, 257–58

  intrinsicism and, 216–17, 219

  irrationality and, 343–45

  libertarianism and, 248–49

  life and, 221–27, 240–43, 256

  literature and, 193–94

  love and, 236–40

  master-slave, 30–31, 218, 278, 279–83, 289, 292, 322–23, 331

  moralism and, 244–47

  objectivism and, 220, 224

  Objectivism and, 120, 228, 348

  ontology and, 221–22, 226–27

  perception and, 224

  philosophy and, 344

  poverty and, 245–46

  pride and, 228, 232–34

  productive work and, 228, 230–32, 240–42

  psychology and, 244–47

  purpose and, 228, 230–32, 240–43

  racism and, 324–25

  rationality and, 219, 222–30, 240–42, 244–45, 343–45

  reason and, 215, 217, 224, 228–29, 283

  reification and, 221

  relations and, 226–27, 228–30, 242, 279–80

  religion and, 215–19

  rights and, 255–56, 257–58

  science and, 321

  selfishness and, 216–21, 232–36

  sensation and, 224

  sense of life and, 179–80

  sex and, 187–88, 236–40

  sobornost’ and, 217

  social theory and, 245–46, 255–56, 257–58, 261, 263–64, 265–66, 267, 344–45

  society and, 343–45

  statism and, 321, 323–24, 344–45

  subjectivism and, 219

  tacit dimensions and, 198

  transcendence and, 220–21, 228–29

  unity and, 29, 228

  values and, 215–28, 240–43

  virtues and, 227–30, 240–43

  volition and, 224–27

  in We the Living (Rand), 230

  ethnicity, 326

  eudaemonia, 242–43, 256

  evasion, 244–45, 293

  evil, 30–31, 217, 218, 224, 241, 244–47, 333–37, 457n. 23

  Evthuhov, 397

  executions, 86

  exile, 81–82, 86–87, 368, 461n. 16, 465n. 8

  existence. See also ontology

  abstraction and, 126

  art and, 196

  causality and, 125, 132–33

  consciousness and, 124–26, 131–32, 138–39, 146, 149, 165, 169, 220

  emotions and, 169

  epistemology and, 146, 149, 169

  ethics and, 220, 221–22

  idealism and, 216

  identity and, 130–33

  life and, 221–22

  literature and, 196

  Marxism and, 126

  materialism and, 216

  ontology and, 124–26, 128, 130–33, 138–39

  perception and, 169

  realism and, 144

  reason and, 169

  reification of, 130

  relations and, 125, 128

  values and, 221–22

  volition and, 165

  existentialism, 119

  existents, 157, 165, 168, 239

  experience, 28–29, 62–63, 177–78

  exploitation, 271–72, 277–78, 279–83, 290, 291, 292

  externalism. See relations

  extrospection, 171–72

  facts, 13, 215–21, 222. See also values

  f
aith, 26, 140, 217, 254–55, 277. See also irrationality; mysticism; religion

  fallacies

  begging the question, 127

  of composition and division, 250, 441n. 7

  of the false alternative, 15–16, 148, 207, 233–34, 333

  frozen abstraction, xi–xii, 262, 441n. 7

  infallibilist, 206–7

  of package-dealing, 235, 277, 294, 422n. 22

  of reification, 221, 359

  stolen concept, 126, 127–28, 131, 225

  of thinking in a square, 159, 277

  family, 330–31

  Farmakovsky, Boris Vladimirovich, 371, 414n. 35

  fascism, 308, 310–11, 318–20

  Fedorov, Nicholas F., 27

  feminism, 186

  Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Gladstein and Sciabarra), ix

  Feyerabend, Paul, 419n. 48

  Fichte, Johann G., 405n. 40

  film, 106, 401n. 3, 416n. 69, 417n. 17, 461n. 19

  First World War, 315–16

  Fitzpatrick, Sheila, 87

  Flew, Antony, 355

  Florensky, Pavel, 34, 42

  flourishing, 243, 357

  Flynn, John T., 11, 316

  focus, 152–54, 156–57, 199

  force. See also power

  Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 252

  consciousness and, 252–55

  faith and, 277

  government and, 260–61, 262–63, 263–64

  history and, 334–37

  rights and, 255, 256, 259–60

  social theory and, 277

  statism and, 315, 323

  foreign aid, 318–20

  foreign policy. See warfare

  For the New Intellectual (Rand), 111

  Foucault, Michel, 144, 290, 419n. 48, 458n. 51

  “The Foundations of Intuitivism” (Lossky), 40

  The Fountainhead (Rand)

  character and, 62

  collectivism and, 102–4, 106

  communism and, 103–4

  creativity and, 195–96

  dualism and, 101–2

  egoism and, 99–104

  emotions and, 174

  ethics and, 219

  film version, 106

  happiness and, 256

  humankind and, 351

  individualism and, 101–4, 106, 219

  love and, 439n. 68

  materialism and, 404n. 31

  mind-body dichotomy and, 101–2, 104

  Nietzsche and, 96, 97, 101, 103, 218

  organicism and, 103–4

  privacy and, 98

  productive work and, 232

  publication of, 443n. 57

  relations and, 106, 279–80, 283

  religion and, 102

  sobornost’ and, 103–4

  society in, 357–58

  soul and, 101

  fragmentation, 61, 274, 307, 323–29

  France, 374–75

  Franck, Murray, 442n. 31, 444n. 71, 458n. 42

  Frank, Semyon, 34, 459n. 6

  freedom. See also autonomy; volition

  action and, 344–45

  autonomy and, 99–100

  capitalism and, 269, 287

  consciousness and, 252–55

  egoism and, 99–100

  force and, 252–55

  individualism and, 64, 256

  Objectivism and, 347–48

  rationalism and, 25

  religion and, 25

  rights and, 256, 258

  Russian culture and, 23

  Russian philosophy and, 26

  sobornost’ and, 26

  of speech, 320

  statism and, 317, 344–45

  unity and, 25, 26

  values and, 99–100

  warfare and, 317

  free will. See volition

  Friedman, Milton, 353

  Freud, Sigmund, 418n. 40

  Freudian psychoanalysis, 185, 291

  Fromm, Erich, 286

  front-seat driving, 156. See also back-seat driving

  frozen abstraction, fallacy of. See fallacies, frozen abstraction

  Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 410n. 27

  Garrett, Garet, 419n. 47

  gender

  education and, 65, 71, 72, 87, 377–78

  Lossky and, 79, 80

  personality and, 32

  presidency and, 187

  sex and, 186–88

  Gladstein, Mimi Reisel, ix

  Glennon, Lynda, 186

  God, 33, 44–45, 68, 144, 216–17, 285, 352

  Gogol, Nikolai Vassilievich, 24

  Goldwater, Barry, 295, 455n. 121

  good, 30–31, 224, 241, 244–47, 300, 333–37, 355, 457n. 23

  Gorky, Maxim, 32, 418n. 34

  Gotthelf, Allan, 49, 225–26, 409n. 19

  Gould, Carol, 421n. 16, 423n. 43, 438n. 45

  government, 260–64, 265. See also statism

  Gramsci, Antonio, 301

  Gredeskul, Nikolai, 388

  Greece, 371

  Greenspan, Alan, 1, 113, 310, 320

  Greenwood, Robert, 220

  Grevs, Ivan Mikhailovich, 75, 374, 377–78, 387

  Grundrisse (Marx), 5, 36, 260, 268

  Guseva, L. V., 75

  Habermas, Jürgen, 185, 290–92, 296

  Haley, Alex, 326

  happiness, 240–43, 256

  Hayek, F. A.

  on capitalism, 442n. 49, 443n. 51

  epistemology and, 197–98, 200

  markets and, 312, 314

  Marx and, xi, 138

  reason and, 197, 208–14

  social theory and, 138

  Hazlitt, Henry, 105, 266, 440n. 1

  hedonism, 241

  Hegel, G. W. F.

  Aufhebung, 9, 25, 34, 355

  dialectics and, xii, 14–15, 25–29, 404n. 33

  ethics and, 435n. 210

  ideal-realism and, 34, 58

  intuition and, 49–50

  logic and, 49–50

  Lossky and, 47, 58

  Marxism and, 35

  Objectivism and, 113–14

  ontology and, 423n. 33

  organicism and, 49–50, 57, 58

  philosophy and, 405n. 40, 406n. 11

  Rand and generally, 8, 459n. 2

  on reason, 254

  relations and, 58, 281–83, 410n. 25

  on rights, 258, 259

  Russian philosophy and, 25–29, 34

  totalitarianism and, 13

  transcendence and, 25–26

  truth and, 35, 58

  unity and, 35

  hegemony, 301

  Heidegger, Martin, 144, 422n. 23

  Heilbroner, Robert, 281

  Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, 124

  Heller, Anne C., 463n. 2, 466n. 1, 468n. 10

  Hellman, Geoffrey, 411n. 34

  Hellman, Lillian, 89, 316–17

  Heraclites, 13, 48

  hermeneutics

  depth hermeneutics, 185, 291, 293

  language and, 291, 293

  Objectivism and, 3–8, 113–14, 360–61, 395

  Herzen, Aleksandr, 370

  Hessen, Robert, 406n. 4

  Heydebrand, Wolf, 8, 15

  Hicks, Granville, 108

  Hicks, Stephen, 96

  history

  capitalism and, 265–66, 310–12, 335–38

  causality and, 340–42

  Christianity and, 76

  consciousness and, 341

  contradiction and, 14–15, 16

  culture and, 337–39

  dialectics and, x–xi, 14–15, 16–17, 76, 366, 371, 373, 379

  dualism and, 333–37

  education and, 72–76, 339, 363, 371–77, 377–78, 379, 381

  epistemology and, 339–40

  ethics and, 230–32, 239–40

  government and, 262, 264

  ideas and, 341–43

  literature and, 17

  logic and, 14–15

  love and, 239–40

  Marxism and, 35–36,
73, 74–75

  materialism and, 15, 333–37, 366

  Objectivism and, 9–10, 17, 118, 360

  philosophy and, 5–6, 335–43, 363, 381

  productive work and, 230–32, 341

  psychology and, 342–43

  racism and, 16

  rationalism and, 209, 211–12

  reason and, 209, 211–12, 254–55, 342

  relations and, 166

  Russian philosophy and, 333

  scholarship and, 5–6

  self-esteem and, 239–40

  socialism and, 373–74

  social theory and, 17, 209, 211–12, 265–66

  statism and, 310–12, 337–38

  systemics and, x–xi, 16–17

  unity and, 372–73

  volition and, 9–10, 16

  History of Philosophy (Windelband), 40

  History of Russian Philosophy (Lossky), 25, 42

  Hitler, Adolf, 343

  Hollinger, Robert, 11, 207, 404n. 26, 427n. 39

  Holocaust, 287–89

  homosexuality, 187–88

  honesty, 229, 291, 292–93, 296

  Hook, Sidney, 35, 111, 113

  Horkheimer, Max, 288, 439n. 78, 442n. 35

  Hospers, John, 225

  House Un-American Activities Committee, 88–89

  Hugo, Victor, 66, 78

  humankind. See also individualism

  action and, 298

  articulation and, 299–300

  Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 252

  collectivism and, 250–51

  communism and, 350–52

  context and, 164, 249–52

  culture and, 297–306

  dualism and, 349–52

  efficacy and, 202–3

  enlightenment of, 344

  as entity, 137

  existents and, 168

  ideal man, 91, 100, 110, 349–52

  integration and, 349–52

  Objectivism and, 349–52, 355–58

  power and, 277–78, 279–89

  property and, 258

  reason and, 168–69

  reification and, 250

  relations and, 249–52, 277–78, 279–89, 297–98

  rights and, 255–60

  sense of life and, 297–301

  social theory and, 255–60, 297–306

  society and, 249–52, 297–306, 349–52, 355–58

  tacit dimensions and, 299–300

  volition and, 137

  Hume, David, 217, 456n. 2

  humility, 233

  Hunt, Lester, 461n. 21

  Husserl, Edmund, 80, 144, 207

  Ideal (Rand), 97

  idealism. See also ideal-realism

  Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 216

  consciousness and, 143, 216

  epistemology and, 143–49

  materialism and, 132

  neo-Idealism, 33–34, 38

  Nietzsche and, 30, 33

  ontology and, 138

  Plato and, 48

  relations and, 55

  sex and, 236–37

  ideal man, 91, 100, 110, 349–52. See also humankind

  ideal-realism, 33–34, 38, 43, 46, 47, 58, 61

  ideas, 62–63, 341–43. See also concepts

  Ideas of Ayn Rand (Merrill), 2

  identity

  alienation and, 287

  attributes and, 135–36

 

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