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Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical

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by Sciabarra, Chris


  causality and, 132–33, 133–34, 135, 137

  Christianity and, 131

  conception and, 157

  consciousness and, 131–32, 140–41, 150–51, 157

  context and, 133, 136–37

  contradiction and, 13–14, 129–30

  dialectics and, 13–14

  entity and, 133–37

  epistemology and, 148–49, 150–51, 157

  logic and, 13–14, 129–30

  Lossky and, 45–50

  ontology and, 123, 129–37, 138, 140–41

  organicism and, 134

  perception and, 150–51, 157

  productive work and, 231–32

  realism and, 58–59

  reason and, 154–55

  relations and, 55–57, 58–59, 134–37

  science and, 134

  self-esteem and, 234–35

  sensation and, 150–51

  volition and, 137

  ideology, 295, 305, 446n. 47

  immigration, 87–88

  implications, 198, 199

  independence, 229, 283, 285

  individualism. See also egoism; humankind

  Anthem (Rand) and, 104–5

  art and, 194

  capitalism and, 264, 268–69, 270

  collectivism and, 73, 250–51

  communism and, 98

  community and, 26–27

  context and, 249–52

  dualism and, 23–24, 26–27, 97–98, 101–2

  ethics and, 219, 255–56, 256–57

  The Fountainhead (Rand) and, 101–4, 106, 219

  freedom and, 64, 256

  literature and, 194

  Lossky and, 44

  Nietzsche and, 31

  Objectivism and, 355–58

  “The Only Path to Tomorrow” (Rand) and, 105–6

  reification and, 250

  relations and, 249–52

  religion and, 25, 93

  rights and, 255–60, 264, 270

  Russian culture and, 23–24

  Russian philosophy and, 26, 38, 465n. 10

  “Screen Guide for Americans” (Rand) and, 106

  sobornost’ and, 26, 33

  socialism and, 33

  social theory and, 249–52, 255–60, 264, 268–69

  society and, 355–58

  statism and, 93, 97–98

  We the Living (Rand) and, 97–98, 118

  individuation, 57, 58

  Industrial Revolution, 155–56, 230–31, 239–40

  infallibility, 206–7, 211

  infatuation, 239

  infinity, 134, 213

  inorganicism, 53–54, 59–60

  Institute for Objectivist Studies. See Atlas Society

  integration. See also synthesis; transcendence

  abstraction and, 159–61

  art and, 192–93

  conception and, 156–57, 159–61

  concepts and, 161–66

  consciousness and, 149, 156–57, 159–61, 177

  context and, 163–66

  definitions and, 162–66

  differentiation and, 160–61, 162–63

  emotions and, 173, 182–88

  entity and, 136–37, 161–66

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

  existents and, 165

  happiness and, 240–43

  humankind and, 349–52

  intrinsicism and, 162–66

  literature and, 192–93

  objectivism and, 165–66

  ontology and, 161–63, 165–66

  perception and, 150, 156–57

  philosophy and, 200–201

  psychology and, 173, 177, 182–88

  radicalism and, 159–60

  reason and, 154–55, 156, 164–65, 173, 182–88

  relations and, 161–63

  Russian philosophy and, 186–87

  sensation and, 150

  sex and, 237–40

  subjectivism and, 162–66

  units and, 162–63

  integrity, 229

  intellectualizing, 183–84, 186

  internalism. See relations

  intrinsicism, 47, 144–49, 162–66, 216–17, 219, 253

  Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (Rand), 111

  introspection, 171–72, 200

  intuition, 29, 34, 43, 46–50, 50–53, 81

  The Intuitive Basis of Knowledge (Lossky), 40, 41–42, 50–53

  irrationality, 244–45, 254–55, 273–74, 297, 299–306, 323, 338, 343–45. See also faith

  Irwin, Terence, 404n. 36

  isolationism, 316–17

  Israel, 318

  The Italics Are Mine (Berberova), 22

  Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, ix, 363, 381

  justice, 25, 229

  Kalberman, Elayne, 113

  Kalberman, Harry, 113

  Kamhi, Michelle M., 418n. 30

  Kant, Immanuel

  consciousness and, 146–47

  dualism and, 59, 336

  education and, 78

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

  fact-value dichotomy and, 217–18

  idealism and, 407n. 27

  Lossky and, 51, 59, 409n. 5, 424n. 62

  Marxism and, 36

  Objectivism and, 91

  ontology and, 138–42

  philosophy and, 33–34, 141–42, 405n. 40

  reason and, 321, 435n. 66

  relations and, 59

  subjectivism and, 51, 52, 146–47, 424n. 62

  transcendence and, 25

  Vvedenksy and, 397

  Kareev, Nikolai Ivanovich, 75, 374–75, 376, 377

  Karpov, V., 34

  Karsavin, L. P., 75, 82, 372–73, 464n. 8

  Kaufmann, Walter, 218

  Kelley, David

  on consciousness, 125, 138

  on context, 164

  on existence, 138

  on flourishing, 243

  illustration of, 151

  on measurement, 428n. 52

  Objectivism and, 5, 12, 114

  Peikoff and, 4

  on perception, 150, 152, 425n. 19

  on philosophy, 339

  work of generally, 2, 7

  Kerensky, Alexander, 64

  Khomyakov, Alexey, 25, 26

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 13

  Kireevsky, Ivan, 26

  Kline, George

  on education, 459n. 6

  on Lossky, 80, 370, 415n. 55

  on Marxism, 407n. 30, 410n. 28

  on materialism, 412n. 2

  on mysticism, 403n. 20

  on Nietzsche, 33

  on relations, 411n. 35

  on sobornost,’ 406n. 3

  on Solovyov, 406n. 11

  on truth, 25

  knowledge. See epistemology

  Kolko, Gabriel, 311–12

  Konecny, Peter, 364, 368–69, 464n. 6, 466n. 6

  Korean War, 317

  Krueger, Janet, 164

  Krupskaya, Nadezhda, 77

  La Boetie, Étienne de, 281

  labor. See productive work

  Lane, Rose Wilder, 105, 266, 443n. 57

  language, 25, 278, 289–96, 325–27, 348, 366, 426n. 22, 427n. 44

  Lapshin, Ivan Ivanovich, 78, 81, 82, 365, 387, 463n. 31, 465n. 8

  Lavoie, Don, 435n. 64

  law, 261–62, 263, 311, 328–29, 348–49

  Leibniz, G. W., 35, 43, 406n. 6

  length, 136

  Lenin, V. I., 14, 33, 36–37, 68–69, 75, 129, 377, 406n. 10

  Leningrad State University. See Petrograd State University

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 405n. 46

  liberalism, 330–32

  libertarianism

  anarchism and, 248, 260–64

  capitalism and, 248–49, 260–74

  definitions of, 248–49, 264–65

  dialectics and, x–xii, 2

  epistemology and, 248–49

  ethics and, 248–49

  force and, 252–55

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sp; individualism and, 249–52, 255–60

  law in, 261–62, 263

  Objectivism and, 2, 114

  ontology and, 248–49

  selfishness and, 264–65

  statism and, 331–32

  Library of Congress, 1, 7

  life, 221–27, 230–32, 234, 240–43, 256

  lifestyle, 297–301, 337–38. See also sense of life

  literature. See also individual works

  abstraction and, 192–93, 195–97

  action and, 195–97

  as art, 192–97

  conception and, 192–93, 195–97

  consciousness and, 192–93, 196–97

  creativity and, 192–93, 194–97

  culture and, 193–95, 302

  dialectics and, 17, 90–91

  education and, 39, 66, 76–77, 371, 372

  emotions and, 192

  epistemology and, 192–93, 196–97

  ethics and, 193–94

  history and, 17

  individualism and, 194

  integration and, 192–93

  Objectivism and, 9

  ontology and, 193, 196

  philosophy and, 90–91, 98–99, 194–95

  realism and, 194, 195

  reason and, 196–97

  Russian culture and, 9, 22, 29–33, 66, 68–69, 174, 194–95, 372

  Russian philosophy and, 9, 24

  Russian Revolution and, 37, 68–69

  sense of life and, 193

  Symbolists in, 30–33, 194–95

  systemics and, 17

  unity and, 197

  Locke, Edwin, 113, 427n. 33

  Locke, John, 11

  logic

  Aristotle and, 48, 126–27, 129

  circularity and, 127–28

  concepts and, 126–30

  consciousness and, 154–55, 241

  contradiction and, 13–14, 119, 129–30

  dialectics and, 13–14

  education and, 365–66

  epistemology and, 127–28, 129, 154–55

  history and, 14–15

  identity and, 13–14, 129–30

  Lossky and, 48, 49–50, 129, 460n. 11

  Objectivism and, 126, 130, 410n. 20

  ontology and, 126–30, 146–47

  reason and, 154–55

  religion and, 154

  Losev, Alexey F., 34

  Lossky, Alexis, 389

  Lossky, Andrew, 42, 80, 389

  Lossky, Boris

  on Lossky, N. O., 80, 84–85, 367–68, 369, 412n. 11, 413n. 15, 415n. 60

  personal life of, 42, 465n. 11

  Lossky, Marie, 389

  Lossky, Nicholas Onufrievich

  abstraction and, 51–53, 60–61, 159

  Aristotle and, 39, 45–50, 58, 79

  art and, 60, 432n. 7

  atomism and, 48, 59–61

  causality and, 49, 132

  collectivism and, 44

  consciousness and, 146

  contradiction and, 25–26, 50

  dialectics and, xii, 10, 17, 39, 45–46, 366, 370

  differentiation and, 51–53, 60–61

  dualism and, 48, 50, 51, 59, 61

  education by, 10, 17, 39–40, 67, 142, 364, 366–70, 385–86, 388–90, 393–99, 459n. 6

  education of, 40, 78

  empiricism and, 50–51, 145

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

  ethics and, 216–17

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

  fact-value dichotomy and, 216–17

  fragmentation and, 61

  gender and, 79, 80

  God and, 44–45, 144, 216–17

  Hegel and, 47, 58

  History of Russian Philosophy, 25, 42

  ideal-realism and, 43, 46, 47, 58, 61

  identity and, 45–50

  illustrations of, 41, 390

  individualism and, 44

  intrinsicism and, 47, 216–17

  intuition and, 43, 46–50, 50–53, 81

  The Intuitive Basis of Knowledge, 40, 41–42, 50–53

  Kant and, 51, 59, 409n. 5, 424n. 62

  on Karsavin, 76

  on Khomyakov, 25

  logic and, 48, 49–50, 129, 460n. 11

  monism and, 48

  mysticism and, 144–47, 352

  in neo-Idealism, 34

  objectivism and, 50–52

  ontology and, 127, 129, 134, 142

  organicism and, 43–45, 48–50, 53–54, 59–61, 127, 352

  perception and, 43–44, 46–47, 59

  personal life of, 40–43

  philosophy and, 45, 116, 366–70

  Plato and, 39, 45, 48, 79, 80

  plurality and, 53–54, 59

  rationalism and, 50–51, 207–8

  realism and, 144–47

  reification and, 48

  relations and, 44, 49, 51–52, 54–61

  religion and, 42, 44–45, 61

  scholarship generally, 40–43

  sobornost’ and, 26, 45

  Solovyov and, 28, 29, 40

  on Stoiunin Gymnasium, 65

  subjectivism and, 46–47, 50–52

  synthesis and, 50, 61

  “Types of Worldviews,” 370, 396

  unity and, 50, 53–54

  We the Living (Rand) and, 388–90, 393, 468n. 111

  The World as an Organic Whole, 40, 42, 53–54

  Lossky, Nicolas (grandson of N. O. Lossky), 389

  Lossky, Vladimir, 42, 389

  love, 34, 236–40, 356, 357

  Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken, 403n. 22

  Love Letters (Rand), 106

  Lukáks, Georg, 359–60

  Lunacharsky, Anatoly V., 32–33, 69, 71, 371, 376, 414n. 34

  Lvov, Prince, 64

  Machan, Tibor, 2, 7, 48, 124, 355

  MacIntyre, Alasdair, 459n. 58

  Mack, Eric, 176, 179, 240

  Manichaeism, 246–47

  Mansel, Henry, 424n. 61

  Marcuse, Herbert, 254, 423n. 33

  Marr, N. Ya, 71

  Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (Sciabarra), xi, xii

  Marx, Karl. See also Marxism

  anarchism and, 260–61

  Aristotle and, 14

  Capital, 5, 231–32, 261, 269

  capitalism and, 13, 265, 268–69, 271–72, 282

  culture and, 300–301

  dialectics and, xii, 14, 35–36, 276

  dualism and, 13

  egoism and, 436n. 15

  fragmentation and, 61

  Grundrisse, 5, 36, 260, 268

  Hayek and, xi, 138

  hermeneutics and, 5

  history and, 35–36, 340–41

  humankind and, 258

  Kareev and, 374

  mind-body dichotomy and, 8, 269

  on money, 313

  as naturalist, 422n. 24

  on ontology, 126

  philosophy and, 35

  on practice, 276

  productive work and, 231–32, 282, 322, 341

  Rand and generally, 5, 8

  reason and, 155

  relations and, 35–36, 282

  on religion, 258

  on rights, 255, 256, 258

  social theory and, 8

  totalitarianism and, 13, 354

  unintended consequences and, 434n. 55

  utopianism and, 344

  Marxism. See also Marx, Karl

  abstraction and, xi–xii, 326

  Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 108

  authoritarianism and, 12–13

  capitalism and, 13, 266

  concepts and, 126

  consciousness and, 126

  culture and, 300–301

  dialectics and, xi–xii, 13, 36–37, 74–75, 359–60, 366

  dualism and, 13, 36–37

  education and, 70–71, 73, 74–75, 305, 373–74, 378

  empiricism and, 36–37

  hermeneutics and, 5

  history and, 35–36, 73, 74–75, 339

  humankind and, 3
50–52

  ideology and, 446n. 47

  libertarianism and, xi–xii

  materialism and, 132

  Objectivism and, 2, 12–13

  ontology and, 126, 129

  organicism and, 35–37

  productive work and, 231–32

  rationalism and, 36–37

  religion and, 330

  Russian philosophy and, 25, 32–33, 35–38

  Russian Revolution and, 36, 70–71

  scholarship and, 36

  slavery and, 328

  Slavophiles and, 35

  sobornost’ and, 35, 37, 353

  statism and, 13, 36, 37–38

  subjectivism and, 36–37

  totalitarianism and, 12–13, 37–38

  unity and, 37–38

  Masaryk, Thomas, 42

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

  materialism

  Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 108–9, 216

  causality and, 132

  consciousness and, 216

  dialectical materialism, 13–14, 15

  education and, 366

  existence and, 216

  history and, 15, 333–37, 366

  Objectivism and, 119

  organicism and, 411n. 31

  philosophy and, 340–41

  reason and, 108–9

  sex and, 236–38

  spirituality and, 108–9

  Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (Lenin), 36

  mathematics, 64, 67, 99, 159, 160–61

  Mayhew, Robert, 393, 466n. 2

  McCarthy, Thomas, 185

  McClelland, James, 71–72

  McConnell, Scott, 390, 464n. 7

  McDowell, John, 89

  measurement, 160–61, 189

  Meikle, Scott, 126, 411n. 31

  memory, 66, 83, 85, 369–70, 397–99

  Mencken, H. L., 99

  Merezhkovsky, Dmitri Sergeyevich, 32, 187, 246

  Merrill, Ronald, 2, 94, 96, 167, 225, 408n. 38, 417n. 20

  metaphysics. See ontology

  method, 181–82

  Middle Ages, 372–73, 377–78

  Mihajlov, Mihajlo, 33

  Milgram Experiment, 289

  Milgram, Shoshana, 388–90, 393–99

  mind-body dichotomy

  action and, 155–56

  Anthem (Rand) and, 104

  Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 109–10

  capitalism and, 269

  consciousness and, 184–85

  dualism and, 122

  emotions and, 184–85

  The Fountainhead (Rand) and, 101–2, 104

  history and, 335–36

  ideas and, 342

  Marx and, 8

  ontology and, 122

  psychology and, 184–85

  reason and, 155–56, 184–85

  sex and, 236–38

  social theory and, 331–32

  Mironovich, A. A., 382

  Mises, Ludwig von, 11, 248, 267, 309, 312, 443n. 51

  “The Model of the Text” (Ricoeur), 6

  money, 270–71, 312–14

  monism, 15, 30, 48, 55, 119, 131–32, 216, 405n. 41

  monopolies, 310–12

  moralism, 244–47, 353–54

  morality. See ethics

  “The Moratorium on Brains” (Rand), 187

 

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