{"title":"Freedom's Three Furies","authors":"David T. Beito","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0340","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Timothy Sandefur's book, Freedom's Furies, discusses the profound impact on libertarian thought of the work of Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand. The book is essential reading for any person interested in the origins of modern libertarianism.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"340 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44937653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life Is Not a Machine or a Ghost: The Naturalistic Origin of Life's Organization and Goal-Directedness, Consciousness, Free Will, and Meaning","authors":"Marsha Familaro Enright","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0218","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Due to a widespread belief in mechano-reductionism, most intellectuals reject the idea that nonconscious living beings act toward goals. Proposing otherwise is mostly rejected as unscientific anthropomorphizing or necessitating appeals to a supernatural power. This false dichotomy has stymied biology and its related sciences. Herein, I present a new naturalistic gestalt on the nature of life—one based on facts and evidence. It incorporates Ludwig von Bertalanffy's and Arthur Koestler's theories of systems and hierarchies with the ideas of Aristotle, Hans Jonas, and Ayn Rand, to identify fundamental formulations on the nature of life, consciousness, free will, and meaning.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"218 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48899011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ayn Rand's Years in the Stoyunin Gymnasium","authors":"A. Grigorovskaya","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0085","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay offers a detailed analysis of archival documents from the Stoyunin Gymnasium Foundation. The young Ayn Rand (born Alissa Rosenbaum) was a pupil of this gymnasium (1914–18). A range of documents published for the first time include lists of the first and second grades (1914–15 and 1915–16), a fragment of the class register (1915–16), member lists of the Stoyunin gymnasium pedagogical council and of class trips (1915–16), and a table of school hours allocation. This essay also discloses the names of Alissa's teachers and the Russian philology lessons taught at the gymnasium.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"122 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42326682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epistemology According to Rand and Hayek","authors":"Robert F. Mulligan","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0123","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Ayn Rand's Objectivist epistemology is the foundation of an impressive, comprehensive, and integrated system of political philosophy, psychology, art, and literature. Friedrich Hayek's operational system of epistemology and his analysis of the psychology of perception (presented primarily in The Sensory Order) is not as clearly integrated with his economics and political philosophy—and many have debated their consistency with one another. This paper engages in a comparative analysis of Rand's and Hayek's epistemology.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"123 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42342744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What She Left Behind","authors":"Pavel K. Solovyev","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay sheds additional light on the biographies and fates of Ayn Rand's closest relatives in the Soviet Union and abroad after young Alissa Rosenbaum left the \"country of workers and peasants\" in 1926 for the pursuit of a new life in the United States. Previously unknown facets of her relatives' lives were intertwined with the complex and often tragic historical events of the first half of the twentieth century. Among these relatives are victims of the German blockade of Leningrad, a music teacher, a European bacteriologist, a doctor who was twice a refugee, and a Soviet Medical Service Corps officer.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"1 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48421816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ayn Rand, Fascism, and Dystopia","authors":"L. Roméu","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0350","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article reviews the book Ayn Rand e il fascismo eterno. Una narrazione distopica, by Diana Thermes. This is the first Italian book specifically devoted to Rand's thought and novels. Thermes has conducted her study in a remarkably original way, profusely interrelating Rand's fiction works with the long-standing tradition of dystopian literature and her analysis of collectivism with the most significant contributions on the nature and causes of totalitarianism, as well as illustrating the relevance of Rand's ideas in the face of present-day challenges.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"350 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43457337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ayn Rand's Novel Contribution: Aristotelian Liberalism","authors":"Cory Massimino","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0314","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The author argues Ayn Rand made a genuinely novel, but often overlooked and underappreciated, contribution in her synthesis of Aristotelianism and liberalism. Aristotelianism, a philosophy of flourishing, and liberalism, a politics of freedom, have been viewed throughout history as largely incompatible doctrines, often understandably so. The author discusses the history of these concepts, especially their tensions, as a backdrop to further explore and contextualize the work of Rand, who argued that Aristotelian ideas about flourishing and liberal ideas about freedom are natural allies, and in fact strengthen each other. Rand's \"Aristotelian liberalism\" is a fruitful synthesis.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"314 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42434581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How We Live: A Dialectical Examination of Human Existence","authors":"Roger E. Bissell","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0280","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The author endeavors to show how dialectical methods can reveal and clarify Ayn Rand's philosophy from the two vital perspectives of the lives of individual human beings in relation to the world and in relation to other people and the social institutions under which they live. In so doing, he applies Chris Matthew Sciabarra's Tri-Level Analysis model of social relations (derived from Rand's social commentaries) and relates Rand's metaphysical value-judgments to the cardinal values and virtues of her ethics.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"280 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49524185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Postmodern Rand, Transatlantic Rand","authors":"R. Long","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0356","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Neil Cocks's collection Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts engages Rand's ideas from a standpoint that is philosophically postmodernist and politically adversarial; while the contributors occasionally make illuminating connections, their obscurantist style, their superficial engagement with Rand, and an impatience borne of hostility render the result disappointing. Claudia Brühwiler's Out of a Gray Fog: Ayn Rand's Europe, by contrast, provides a fascinating look at Rand's European connections, her complex attitudes toward European culture, and the European reception of her ideas, which serves as a useful corrective to the conventional narrative of Rand's hostility to Europe and Europe's hostility to Rand.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"356 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45688235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Check Your Presuppositions! A New Kind of Foundationalism in Objectivism","authors":"Dave Tyson","doi":"10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0154","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Ayn Rand's Objectivism holds a foundationalist view of knowledge—that knowledge is hierarchical, with the less basic supported by inference from the more basic, which is known directly. But two very different forms of foundationalism (deductive and presuppositional) are observable in Objectivism, and vestiges of deductivism, which Rand explicitly rejected, can be found in attempts to systematize her philosophy. This article attempts to resolve conflicts between the two approaches. It endorses presuppositional foundationalism and suggests that Rand's view be modified accordingly.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"154 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49606568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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