scholarship. See also academia
on egoism, 215
hermeneutics and, 3–8
of Lossky, 40–43
Marxism and, 36
Objectivism and, 111, 360–61
on Rand generally, ix–x, xii, 1–3, 359, 395, 466n. 2
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 141
Schumpeter, Joseph, 443n. 69
Schwartz, Peter, 452n. 53
Sciabarra, Chris Matthew
Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, ix–x, xi, xii, 2–3, 8–10, 18, 363, 366, 378, 381, 385, 391, 393
“A Challenge to Russian Radical-and Ayn Rand,” xii, 393–400
Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, ix
Marx, Hayek, and Utopia, xi, xii
“The Rand Transcript,” ix, 363–80, 381, 385–86, 387, 391, 393, 396
“The Rand Transcript, Revisited,” ix, 381–91, 393
Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism, xi, xii
science
causality and, 123, 124, 132
concepts and, 123
consciousness and, 131, 151–52, 213
dialectics and, 463n. 35
dualism and, 321
education and, 320–22, 371
efficacy and, 213
epistemology and, 124, 151–52, 213
ethics and, 321
humankind and, 164
identity and, 134
Objectivism and, 124
ontology and, 142
perception and, 151–52
philosophy and, 116, 120–21, 122–24, 133
rationalism and, 213
reason and, 213, 321
relations and, 123–24, 134
religion and, 29
sensation and, 151–52
statism and, 320–22
truth and, 116
volition and, 426n. 24
Scott, Duncan, 401n. 3, 417n. 17
“Screen Guide for Americans” (Rand), 88, 106
Second World War, 316–17
self-esteem
consciousness and, 238, 239
efficacy and, 202
egoism and, 247
history and, 239–40
pseudo-self-esteem, 278, 283–84
psychology and, 167, 247
selfishness and, 218–19
sex and, 237–40
as value, 228, 233–35
selfishness, 110–11, 216–21, 232–36, 237–40, 258–59, 264–65
Semenov, I. I., 74, 378
sensation, 149–52, 156–57, 224. See also senses
sense of life
art and, 181, 191–92, 193, 238
articulation and, 299–300
childhood and, 178–80
consciousness and, 177, 178–81
contradiction and, 299–300
culture and, 193, 297–301, 337–38
emotions and, 178, 179, 180–81
ethics and, 179–80
history and, 337–38
literature and, 193
Ortega y Gasset and, 418n. 30
psycho-epistemology and, 432n. 11
reason and, 178
tacit dimensions and, 299–300
volition and, 181, 182
senses, 132, 141, 144, 149–52, 154. See also sensation
Serebrennikov, V., 387, 465n. 8
Sergeev, V. S., 74, 372
sex, 32, 37, 109, 186–88, 236–40, 286
Shakespeare, William, 12, 76
Shestov, Lev, 33, 43, 403n. 20
Shimkevich, V. M., 364, 386
Shpet, Gustav G., 34
Sikorski, Helene Vladimirovna, 65–66, 85, 367–68, 465n. 9
Silver Age
of Russian culture generally, 23, 29–33, 96–97
Russian philosophy in, 29–30, 32–33, 36, 38, 54, 77, 96–97, 246, 352
skepticism, 146, 148
slave ethics. See master-slave ethics
Slavophiles, 25–27, 29, 38
Smith, George, 151
Smith, Kay Nolte, 114
sobornost’
Chernyshevsky and, 27
Christianity and, 32
collectivism and, 251
communism and, 98
dialectics and, 37
ethics and, 217
The Fountainhead (Rand) and, 103–4
individualism and, 26, 33
Lossky and, 26, 45
Marxism and, 35, 37, 353
in Russian culture, 23
in Russian philosophy, 26, 35, 251
translation of, 406n. 3
unity and, 26, 37, 352–53, 355
socialism, 33, 210–11, 261, 267, 352, 373–74
Socialist Realism, 32, 195
social metaphysics, 167, 278, 283, 284–86, 292
social theory. See also society
action and, 298
anarchism and, 260–64
articulation and, 211, 299–300
capitalism and, 248–49, 260–74, 307–14
collectivism and, 250–51, 268–69
conception and, 302–6
consciousness and, 154, 272, 301–6
conservatism and, 330–32
constructivism and, 208, 210–12
context and, 249–52
culture and, 209–12, 265–66, 273–74, 278, 297–306, 344–45
dialectics and, 17, 268–70, 276–77, 359–61, 377, 379
dualism and, 210, 268–70, 330–32
education and, 73, 302–6, 364–65, 377, 379
emotions and, 208–9
epistemology and, 154, 211, 332
ethics and, 245–46, 255–56, 256–57, 261, 263–64, 265–66, 267, 344–45
family and, 330–31
force and, 277
fragmentation and, 274
history and, 17, 209, 211–12, 265–66
humankind and, 255–60, 297–306
individualism and, 249–52, 255–60, 264, 268–69
infallibility and, 211
liberalism and, 330–32
Marx and, 8
mind-body dichotomy and, 331–32
mysticism and, 332
Objectivism and, 120, 347–49, 359–61
omniscience and, 211
ontology and, 137–38, 331–32
philosophy and, 344
power and, 276–79, 301–2, 304
racism and, 330
radicalism and, x–xii
rationalism and, 208–12, 214
rationality and, 245–46, 297, 299–306, 344–45
reason and, 208–12, 214, 268
reification and, 137–38, 250, 267–68
relations and, 166, 249–52, 276–79, 297–98, 301–2
religion and, 302, 330
rights and, 255–60, 264
Russian culture and, 332
selfishness and, 264–65
sense of life and, 297–301
society and, 297–306, 344–45
statism and, x–xi, 307–14, 330–32
synthesis and, 276–77
systemics and, 17
tacit dimensions and, 211, 299–300
unintended consequences and, 208–9
society. See also social theory
action and, 298
articulation and, 299–300
capitalism and, 267–68
consciousness and, 355–57
culture and, 297–306, 343–45
ethics and, 343–45
humankind and, 249–52, 297–306, 349–52, 355–58
individualism and, 355–58
mysticism and, 352–53, 355
Objectivism and, 345–58
organicism and, 297
philosophy and, 344
rationality and, 343–45, 348, 355–57
relations and, 297–98
revolution in, 345–49, 354
sense of life and, 297–301
social theory and, 297–306, 344–45
statism and, 344–45
tacit dimensions and, 299–300
So
lovyov, Vladimir, 24, 27–29, 34, 40, 207, 370, 372–73
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 330
Song of Russia, 89
Sorokin, Pitirim, 75, 81, 82, 86, 465n. 8
soul, 101, 104, 218
Soviet Union, 316–17, 317–18, 364–65
speech, freedom of, 320. See also censorship
Spinoza, Baruch, 11, 35, 410n. 27
spirituality, 108–9, 170, 236–38, 285
Spooner, Lysander, 260
Stalin, Joseph V., 36, 195
Starynkevich, K., 34
statism
action and, 344–45
Atlas Shrugged (Rand) and, 107–8, 320–21
Austrian school theory and, 309–14, 322
authoritarianism and, 13
capitalism and, 260–64, 265, 282, 307–14, 319–20, 323–24, 327–29, 336, 337–38
collectivism and, 37–38, 310–11
communism and, 308
conception and, 323
contradiction and, 345
culture and, 344–45
dialectics and, x–xi, 90
dualism and, 97–98, 307–14, 321, 330–32
education and, 320–22, 345
efficacy and, 203
ethics and, 321, 323–24, 344–45
fascism and, 308, 310–11, 318–20
force and, 260–61, 262–63, 315, 323
foreign aid and, 318–20
fragmentation and, 61, 307, 323–29
freedom and, 317, 344–45
history and, 310–12, 334, 335, 336, 337–38
individualism and, 93, 97–98
language and, 293–96
libertarianism and, 331–32
Marxism and, 13, 36, 37–38
master-slave ethics and, 322–23
Objectivism and, 2, 347–49
ontology and, 331–32
poverty and, 246
power and, 278, 289, 307–9, 311, 312, 314
productive work and, 308–9, 319, 322
racism and, 324, 327–29
radicalism and, x–xi
rationality and, 245, 299–300, 323, 344–45
relations and, 307, 318
religion and, 90, 93
rights and, 308, 315, 344–45
science and, 320–22
social theory and, x–xi, 307–14, 330–32
society and, 344–45
totalitarianism and, 37–38
unity and, 37–38
warfare and, 315–18
welfare and, 314, 315–16, 318, 329, 345
We the Living (Rand) and, 97–98, 118, 416n. 71
Stirner, Max, 260
Stoiunina, Maria Nikolaievna, 65, 66–67, 80, 82, 367
Stoiunin, Vladimir, 65, 66–67, 367
Stoiunin Gymnasium, 65–67, 80, 81, 84, 367, 388, 398
stolen concept, fallacy of. See fallacies, stolen concept
Strakhov, Nicholas N., 27
Stubblefield, Robert W., 402n. 5
style, 432n. 11
the subconscious, 172–73, 177–82, 189, 191–92, 227, 228–29, 237, 240
subjectivism
concepts and, 162–66
consciousness and, 146, 148, 150–51, 161
Dionysus and, 31
emotions and, 205
empiricism and, 207–8
epistemology and, 144–49, 150–51, 162–66
ethics and, 219
force and, 253
idealism and, 144–49
intrinsicism and, 47, 162–66
Kant and, 51, 52, 146–47, 424n. 62
Lossky and, 46–47, 50–52
Marxism and, 36–37
mysticism and, 146
objectivism and, 165–66
ontology and, 142, 162–63, 165–66
perception and, 150–51
rationalism and, 205, 207–8
realism and, 29
reason and, 164–65
sensation and, 150–51
skepticism and, 146
survivalism, 243
Symbolists
Christianity and, 30
education and, 77
gender and, 186–87
history and, 333
in literature, 30–33, 194–95
Manichaeism and, 246
Nietzsche and, 30–33, 219
religion and, 30, 306
synoptic delusion, 211
synthesis. See also integration; transcendence
dialectics and, 14–16, 38, 90
dualism and, 22, 38
Lossky and, 50, 61
Objectivism and, 9–10, 22, 110–11, 117–19, 148–49
philosophy and, 63–64, 276
Russian philosophy and, 26, 27–29, 33–34, 38, 111, 186–87, 276, 360
social theory and, 276–77
systemics, x–xi, 9–10, 16–17, 323
Szamuely, Tibor, 406n. 4
Szasz, Thomas, 354
tacit dimensions, 197–201, 211, 238, 240, 291, 299–300
Takhtarev, K. M., 365, 377
Tarle, E. V., 75, 375–76, 377, 378, 465n. 8
Taylor, Joan Kennedy, 431n. 59
taxation, 263–64, 319, 322, 345, 349, 441n. 28
technology, 320–22
terrorism, 318
Thales, 121
theater, 417n. 24
theory, 24–25, 276
thinking. See consciousness
Think Twice (Rand), 417n. 24
Thomas, Paul, 246, 261
Thorslev, Peter L., 15, 405nn. 42, 44, 46
thought. See ideas
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 414n. 38, 416n. 8, 418n. 40
Tiumenev, A. I., 74, 371
Toffler, Alvin, 350
Tolstaya, Tatyana, 23
Tolstoy, Leo, 432n. 7, 448n. 72
Torres, Louis, 418n. 30
Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Sciabarra), xi, xii
totalitarianism. See also authoritarianism
authoritarianism and, 12–13, 452n. 53
communism and, 88–89, 94
Marxism and, 12–13, 37–38
Objectivism and, 353–55
“The Only Path to Tomorrow” (Rand) and, 105–6
sex and, 37
statism and, 37–38
unity and, 29
Tracinski, Robert, 402n. 5
trade, 235, 269–70, 315, 377–78
transcendence, 15–16, 25–26, 32, 50, 119, 148–49, 220–21, 228–29. See also integration; synthesis
Trebesnul, N. A., 378
Trotsky, Leon, 82, 350–52
truth
epistemology and, 145
Hegel and, 35, 58
intuition and, 34
language and, 291
Objectivism and, 428n. 55
philosophy and, 116
Russian philosophy and, 25, 26, 28–29
Tuccille, Jerome, 421n. 6
Tucker, Benjamin, 260
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 66
“Types of Worldviews” (Lossky), 370, 396
The Unconquered (Rand), 417n. 24
unintended consequences, 208–9, 210–11, 213–14
United Nations, 451n. 49
units, 157, 158–59, 162–63, 191
unity. See also organicism
collectivism and, 37–38
epistemology and, 117
ethics and, 29, 228
freedom and, 25, 26
history and, 372–73
in ideal-realism, 34
language and, 294–96
literature and, 197
Lossky and, 50, 53–54
love and, 239
Marxism and, 37–38
ontology and, 117, 123–24
religion and, 25, 29
sex and, 32
sobornost’ and, 26, 37, 352–53, 355
statism and, 37–38
totalitarianism and, 29
truth and, 28–29, 35
utopianism, 138, 343–44
Val’d
gauer, O. F., 371–72
values
abstraction and, 99–100
action and, 222, 224–27
art and, 191–92
articulation and, 200
capitalism and, 273, 307
circularity and, 225, 226
context and, 221–22
definition of, 221–22, 228
epistemology and, 221–22, 226–27
ethics and, 215–28, 240–43
facts and, 215–21, 222
freedom and, 99–100
happiness and, 240–43
life and, 221–27
ontology and, 221–22, 226–27
productive work as, 240–41
purpose and, 228, 230–32
rationality and, 240–42
reason as, 228
relations and, 221–22, 226–27
religion and, 97
self-esteem as, 228, 233–35
society and, 357
totalitarianism and, 13
unity and, 228
virtues and, 226–27, 240–43
volition and, 224–27
Veatch, Henry, 240
Vietnam War, 294–95, 317
Vilga, Helena Posener, 412n. 11
Vinogradov, P., 74, 373
Vinogradsky, Sergei Nikolaevich, 371
The Virtue of Selfishness (Rand), 110, 111, 235, 264
virtues, 219, 227–36, 240–43
visibility, 238–40
Vladimir of Kiev, 409n. 6
The Voice of Reason (Rand), 111
volition. See also autonomy; freedom
articulation and, 200
causality and, 137
as concept, 132
conception and, 156–57, 161
consciousness and, 131, 137, 152–54, 165, 182, 201, 252
dialectics and, 16
epistemology and, 152–54, 161, 252
ethics and, 224–27
focus and, 152–54
history and, 9–10, 16
humankind and, 137
life and, 224–27
measurement and, 161
ontology and, 137, 165
perception and, 154
philosophy and, 201
rationality and, 228
rights and, 258, 259
science and, 426n. 24
sense of life and, 181, 182
senses and, 154
sex and, 187–88
values and, 224–27
Volsky, Stanislav, 32–33
Vvedenksy, Aleksandr Ivanovich, 40, 78, 81, 365, 366, 369, 459n. 6, 460n. 8
Wallace, George, 330
Walsh, George, 7, 139, 139, 140–41, 443n. 52, 448n. 77
Ward, James, 409n. 12
warfare, 265, 294–95, 315–18
We (Zamiatin), 37, 86
Weber, Max, 435. See also Rand, Ayn, Weberian view of politics
Weidle, Vladimir Vasilyevich, 414n. 35
Weinstein, James, 311
welfare, 259–60, 265, 314, 315–16, 318, 329, 345
We the Living (film), 417n. 17
We the Living (Rand)
altruism and, 96–97
as autobiographical, 37–38, 390, 393, 414n. 37, 463n. 4, 464n. 7, 468n. 111
communism in, 37–38, 91, 93–98
education in, 73
egalitarianism and, 95–96
ethics in, 230
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