Ayn Rand, the 'Goddess of Selfishness' 1905 - 1982

Ayn Rand was born as Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, and was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter.
Ayn Rand created her personal paradigm called Objectivism, but unfortunately had a lot of followers.

Born in Russia, at age 21 Rand emigrated to the United States in 1926.
She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935-1936. She first achieved fame with The Fountainhead (1943), and her best-known work was the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged (1957).

Ayn Rand as Aristotelian:
Rand, following Aristotle and Catholics (since Council of Chalcedon), draws a sharp distinction between that which is caused by bodily human intuition – "the man-made", and that what is caused by 'supreme reason – "the metaphysically given" (body-mind split). Metaphysically given facts are per definition TRUE and man-made phenomena are FALSE until 'RATIONALLY' proven TRUE. Egoism disguised in logic.

Rand promotes individualism (including individual property) and capitalism, with government only as 'policeman' and 'nanny'.
Ayn Rand fanatically opposed all shapes of collectivism, and promoted 'ethical egoism'.
Ayn Rand considered 'reason' to be the only way to 'knowledge', and considered 'reason' to be the essence of her philosophy.
According to Rand, Aristotle, 'the teacher of those who know', is the fountainhead behind every achievement in 'civilized' society including science.

Famous quote of Ayn Rand: I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows."

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Ayn Rand consistently rejected the concept of 'a priori' knowledge, but fails to see that 'reason' produces a similar kind of knowledge. She states explicitly: There is no a priori knowledge. There is no knowledge not derived from experience
In 1960 Rand said that empiricists like herself saw knowledge as obtained by direct perception of immediate facts, with no recourse to concepts. . .

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