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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