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| Name: |
Ayn Rand | | Variant Name: |
Alice Zinovievna Rosenbaum | | Birth Date: |
February 2, 1905 | | Death Date: |
March 6, 1982 | | Place of Birth: |
St. Petersburg, Russia | | Place of Death: |
New York, New York, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
author, screenwriter, philosopher |
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Biography of Ayn Rand
7657 words, approx. 25.5 pages
 Ayn Rand, one of the few systematic philosophers who have used imaginative literature to develop their ideas, was a novelist and the founder of the Objectivist school of philosophy. She was an advocate of realism in epistemology, rational self-interest i...
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Biography of Ayn Rand
7155 words, approx. 23.9 pages
 Ayn Rand has been both revered and disparaged as the author of controversial novels, essays, and other works that espouse her philosophy of Objectivism. A Russian-born American citizen, Rand celebrated laissez-faire capitalism in her writings, arguing th...
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Biography of Ayn Rand
5042 words, approx. 16.8 pages
 Ayn Rand's novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) develop her philosophy of objectivism, which challenged conventional values by emphasizing laissez-faire capitalism, individualism, and opposition to altruism. After her novels, Rand pro...



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The Virtue of Selfishness Information
175 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays and papers by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. Most of the essays originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter, except for "The Objectivist Ethics", which was a paper...



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 American Scholar
Virtue.
09/22/2004: 1,084 words, approx. 4 pages Long ago, when I taught in a community college, I had a student who didn't want to be there. Brilliant, disappointed, he made up for his disappointments by trying to shame his teachers. His method was to show familiarity with things they probably hadn't...
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 Ideas on Liberty
The selfishness of the unselfish
06/01/2000: 1,072 words, approx. 4 pages Several years ago, I encountered a woman pat a cocktail party in Atlanta who was active in that city's historical-preservation movement. To make conversation, I asked why she thought that stricter historical-- preservation regulations were required. "Because greedy developers tear down too many...


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The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand | |
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