Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0348
Aaron Weinacht
ABSTRACT:Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia, by Derek Offord, deals with both the origins and the influence of Rand's thought. On the former, Offord places Rand squarely and persuasively within the Russian intelligentsia tradition. On the latter, and less convincingly, the author discusses Rand as an "icon" of an American "Right" that remains largely undefined.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0328
Douglas B. Rasmussen, D. D. Uyl
ABSTRACT:Benjamin Lipscomb (The Women Are Up to Something) and Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachel Wiseman (Metaphysical Animals) have written books discussing the same four women philosophers—Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch—and their rise to prominence in the almost exclusively male-dominated academies of Oxford and Cambridge universities. This review focuses on these philosophers' intellectual contributions, with special attention given to the Aristotelian character of their views in the face of an opposing philosophical regimen. We conclude with a brief reflection on Ayn Rand's moral philosophy in light of the contributions made by these four women philosophers.
摘要：本杰明·利普斯科姆（Benjamin Lipscomb）、克莱尔·麦克坎海尔（Clare Mac Cumhall）和雷切尔·怀斯曼（Rachel Wiseman。这篇综述集中在这些哲学家的智力贡献上，特别关注他们在面对对立的哲学养生法时的观点的亚里士多德性质。最后，结合这四位女哲学家的贡献，对兰德的道德哲学进行了简要的反思。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0343
R. Raad
ABSTRACT:In Retaking College Hill: The Adults Are Back, Walter Donway takes us on a tour of a university that has been consumed by low standards and cancel culture. The dean is attempting to protect the university's standards but is being opposed at every turn, and there is a plot to fire him. A small group of his supporters try to help him. They face opposition of multiple types, including violence, each step of the way and must skillfully manage the situation. This is a novel of ideas—showing us how philosophy got the university into this mess, and how clear thinking and powerful ideas—such as those of Ayn Rand—can help reverse the trend.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0251
Roger E. Bissell
ABSTRACT:The author continues his challenge to the "official" Objectivist view of free will by addressing the implications of his value-determinism/conditional-volition model for various Objectivist moral concepts including value, sacrifice, virtue, obligation, and moral and legal responsibility and accountability. He argues that based on Rand's definitions, the conventional understandings of sacrifice or betrayal of values, lapses in virtue, and breaches in morality need considerable reconceptualizing. The author gives special attention to Rand and Kant with regard to lying, use of force, and acts of generosity, finding not nearly as much difference between them as is commonly believed.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0324
F. Seddon
ABSTRACT:In Exploring "Atlas Shrugged": Ayn Rand's Magnum Opus, Edward W. Younkins examines Rand's 1957 novel as philosophy, literature, political economy, and business-education text. The book is constituted mostly by previously published essays. Despite some interpretive difficulties throughout, the introduction and appendix represent worthwhile additions to this collection.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0206
R. Hartford
ABSTRACT:A true philosophical system requires a true ethical theory. This paper proposes a premise-based approach to the truth of the foundational principle—the requirement to take actions to benefit one's life. Ayn Rand's choice-based foundation as "the single choice: to live" has equivalent consequences for ethical theory, but the premise-based approach and proof firmly anchor the foundation of ethics to the facts of reality. This article demonstrates that in order to be true and consistent, a particular set of premises requires the taking of beneficial action for one's life, and that provides proof of the truth of the Objectivist ethics.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0189
L. Roméu
ABSTRACT:The purpose of the present article is to provide a comparative introduction to Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism by exploring her most significant intellectual interactions with some of the leading figures of the libertarian movement. While revolving around Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, and Robert Nozick, it nevertheless pays attention to Rand's and Objectivism's relationship, affinities, and differences with additional authors belonging to this tradition.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0165
Mikhail Kravtsov, M. Kizilov
ABSTRACT:This article provides new information about Ayn Rand's residences in Saint Petersburg (Petrograd/Leningrad). The authors, who based the article on hitherto unknown archival documents, discovered new information regarding the exact location of the apartments where the Rosenbaums lived in the city from 1904 through the 1930s. Furthermore, the article provides information about where Rand's grandparents, Berko (Boris) Kaplan and his wife Sarah, had been living. Additionally, it offers English translations and Russian originals of archival documents related to the aforementioned locations.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0214
Kathleen Touchstone
ABSTRACT:This essay examines error and both external freedom and internal freedom. There is no external freedom (the latitude to choose) without internal freedom (the capacity to choose). Concerning external freedom, it suggests that errors serve as a derivative basis for natural rights. Concerning internal freedom, it overviews four groundbreaking papers from the 1990s by Stephen Boydstun, who suggested that there is no external freedom without internal indeterminism—specifically that associated with quantum probabilities related to neuronal control processes. Also reviewed is work by Elio Conte and by Andrei Khrennikov. Experiments involving a quantum-like model of cognition are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.22.2.0318
E. Bissell
ABSTRACT:The author disagrees with Aaron Weinacht's contention that Ayn Rand brought nihilism to America. Rand wrote about issues that concerned nihilist thinkers such as Nikolai Chernyshevskii, but she reacted in a profoundly different way to those issues. The differences are not merely political—insofar as the nihilists were socialist and Rand was a capitalist; they were much deeper.
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