{"title":"Money, Morality, and the Need for Entrepreneurship","authors":"Sarah Weinman","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0335","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In Atlas Shrugged, the observations of the character Francisco d'Anconia are used to illustrate the connection between Objectivism, morality, and economics. In response, the author demonstrates how today's socioeconomic movements not only are inconsistent with d'Anconia's view but will likely lead to further large-scale economic and moral crises, unless an economic system is established that will protect the individual's right to worthwhile production, income, and ownership.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"335 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42749364","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's in Your File Folder? Part 3: Differentiation and Integration in Logic (and Illogic)","authors":"Roger E. Bissell","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0229","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this third installment of his series on key, underappreciated ideas in Ayn Rand's epistemology, the author discusses the nature of differentiation and integration as the functional essence of consciousness and applies that insight to various cognitive and noncognitive processes of awareness, with a special emphasis on logic and illogic. He offers an extended analysis of the fallacies of \"Frozen Abstraction\" and \"False Alternative,\" as well as critiques of a long-standing Objectivist conflation of falsity and contradiction and a relatively more recent Objectivist error, the fallacy of \"genuine awareness.\"","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"229 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46536777","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 \"Integrated Man\" and Russian Nietzscheanism","authors":"A. Grigorovskaya","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0308","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The purpose of the article is to identify the influence on Ayn Rand's work of Friedrich Nietzsche in Silver Age Russia. The analysis focuses on Rand's novels We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and some of her nonfiction philosophical essays. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None is the work by Nietzsche that is central to the analysis.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"308 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48501460","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":"The Future of Art Criticism: Objectivism Goes to the Movies","authors":"Kyle Barrowman","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0165","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:By virtue of an extended consideration of problems and possibilities in the discipline of film studies toward the goal of constructing an Objectivist aesthetics of cinema, this article examines some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary art criticism. Opposing tenets of an Aristotelian aesthetic tradition against tenets of a Kantian aesthetic tradition, the author attempts to resolve a number of long-standing aporias in the Objectivist aesthetics and in the philosophy of art more broadly in the hopes of charting a fruitful path for the future of art criticism.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"165 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48711939","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":"Developing an Instrument to Measure Objectivism","authors":"Eric B. Dent, J. Parnell, Shawn Carraher","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article describes the development and validation of a scale specifically designed to measure one’s propensity for Objectivism. The scale developed in this article assesses metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and politics. A three-stage process of scale development results in a multidimensional scale that largely supports Rand’s original conception of the construct in the United States and Lithuania. Several challenges are identified, including problems with select items referencing specific political preferences and addressing notions of a higher being. Prospects for future research are identified, including tests for associations between Objectivism and individual factors such as leadership style, organizational commitment, and job performance.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"1 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42093837","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":"Émigrés on the October Revolution: The Suicide of Russia in the Novels of Ayn Rand and Mark Aldanov","authors":"A. Grigorovskaya","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0043","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The events of the Russian Revolution, which took place one hundred years ago in October 1917, are reflected in Ayn Rand’s first novel We the Living. This article shows Rand’s relationship to the Russian Diaspora—though her name is not usually associated with Russian émigré authors. This article compares Rand’s work with the novels of another Russian émigré writer—Mark Aldanov (Escape, Suicide)—which shows a common comprehension of the October Revolution in the works of both writers, with similar art images, interpretations of the reasons for the revolution, and an understanding of its harmful consequences for Russia.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"43 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46316038","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":"Using the Master’s Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House: The Fountainhead Reads Doctor Faustus","authors":"Alison Gerard","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0028","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Largely by the use of allegory, Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead repurposes and reinterprets the religious morality of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus to espouse an Objectivist, rather than theist, view of salvation and damnation. The Faustian narrative no longer belongs to Faustus alone, but is read against itself in order to theorize that giving up one’s ego and independence, rather than giving up one’s membership to the societal collective, is the straightest road to perdition.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"28 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44888129","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":"On Life and Value within Objectivist Ethics","authors":"Kathleen Touchstone","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0055","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article considers the meanings of “life” within Objectivist ethics. It distinguishes between life lived moment to moment (a flow concept) and life-as-a-whole (a stock concept). It examines life’s finality as related to life being the ultimate value. It questions whether one “lives to consume” or “consumes to live” from a desert island perspective. It discusses what one’s whole life entails within the context of decision making. It looks at decisions between competing values. Finally, it discusses the distinction between ethical and ethically neutral actions and suggests ways in which inquiries regarding these may be approached.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"55 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48852062","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":"Egoism and Others","authors":"Merlin Jetton","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0084","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Ayn Rand was a strong and influential advocate of self-interest, of ethical egoism. What does her version of egoism mean in practical terms pertaining to interactions with other people generally other than not violating their rights and not committing fraud? This article explores that question with special attention to trust and cooperation. Ayn Rand said little about trust and cooperation in her ethics, but these are important aspects of living a productive life.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"84 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41509265","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":"Not Enough Primary Categories in Peikoff’s DIM? Salutary Eclecticism and an ACID Test","authors":"Roger E. Bissell","doi":"10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0098","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The author reprises his review of The DIM Hypothesis by arguing for an expansion and revision of Leonard Peikoff’s model to include not three, but four primary positions regarding integration (aka “DIM modes”): Integration, Disintegration, Abstract Misintegration, and Concrete Misintegration—and to include not just two mixtures of those primary positions, but twelve. He offers it as a work in progress and a remedy to the over-restrictiveness and resulting misrepresentations of various philosophers by Peikoff’s version of the model.","PeriodicalId":35149,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"104 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43933062","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}