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Philosophy : who needs it / Ayn Rand ; introduction by Leonard Peikoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rand, Ayn.
- Series:
- Ayn Rand library ; vol. 1.
- The Ayn Rand library ; vol. 1
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 1984
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 308 pages ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- Centennial edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Signet, [1984]
- Summary:
- This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.
- Contents:
- Philosophy: who need it
- Philosophical detection
- The metaphysical versus the man-made
- The missing link
- Selfishness without a self
- An open letter to Boris Spassky
- Faith and force: the destroyers of the modern world
- From the horse's mouth
- Kant versus Sullivan
- Causality versus duty
- An untitled letter
- Egalitarianism and inflation
- The stimulus and the response
- The establishing of an establishment
- Censorship: local and express
- Fairness doctrine for education
- What can one do?
- Don't let it go.
- Notes:
- " ... reprint of a hardcover ed. published by the Bobbs-Merrill Co."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rand, Ayn. Selections. 1984. Philosophy.
- ISBN:
- 0451138937
- 9780451138934
- 0451173945
- 9780451173942
- OCLC:
- 25344422
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