Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0452
Roger E. Bissell
abstract:The author argues that Rand's ethical theory is much closer in essence to the eudaimonist, self-perfectionist perspectives of Aristotle and the neo-Aristotelians, Douglas Den Uyl and Douglas Rasmussen, than to the "selfish," egoistic ethics many assume to be her basic position. He discusses Rand's anti-hedonist and pro-rational selfishness positions as corollaries of man's life as the standard of moral value, as well as Rand's point that treating either happiness or personal benefit as the standard of moral value is a reversal of cause and effect. He also identifies the oppressive negativism in Rand's discussion of the seven canonical Objectivist virtues.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0400
Alec Mouhibian
abstract:Isabel Paterson is the founding godmother of the libertarian movement, known best for her book The God of the Machine, which Ayn Rand credited for having done "for capitalism what the Bible did for Christianity." Often overlooked is her twenty-five-year career as a literary columnist for the New York Herald Tribune. Culture and Liberty: Writings of Isabel Paterson, edited by Stephen Cox, presents a selection of those columns along with private letters and other essays. They are a treasure. Paterson's critical performances show us a systematic yet unpredictable mind at work—a model not only of the first but also of any future libertarian worthy of the name.
伊莎贝尔·帕特森是自由意志主义运动的奠基人，她最著名的著作是《机器之神》，安·兰德称赞她的著作“对资本主义的贡献就像圣经对基督教的贡献一样”。她在《纽约先驱论坛报》(New York Herald Tribune)担任文学专栏作家长达25年的职业生涯常常被忽视。斯蒂芬·考克斯编辑的《文化与自由:伊莎贝尔·帕特森的作品》精选了这些专栏以及私人信件和其他文章。它们是珍宝。帕特森的批判性表现向我们展示了一种系统而不可预测的思维方式——不仅是第一个自由意志主义者的模式，也是未来任何一个名副其实的自由意志主义者的模式。
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0442
Amos Wollen
abstract:Mark David Henderson's book, The Soul of Atlas, defends the view that there is more common ground than is usually believed between Christianity and Objectivism. Despite some minor aesthetic difficulties, the book is well written, making it easily accessible as an introductory text to the Christian/Objectivist debate. After making some minor recommendations as to how the book could have been improved, the author concludes that The Soul of Atlas's place in the Objectivist literature is one of a "conversation starter," not a "groundbreaking" work of Christian/Objectivist synthesis.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0301
R. Campbell
abstract:Think as If Your Life Depends on It puts Barbara Branden's lectures on the Principles of Efficient Thinking in print at last, along with three later lectures. In Roger Bissell's excellent transcription, the ten lectures introduce readers to psycho-epistemology (the psychology of methods of thinking), the difference between directed and undirected thinking, the role of the subconscious in problem-solving, common faults in thinking, and motivational issues that interfere with thinking. Her contributions were effectively erased from Objectivism after the Nathaniel Branden Institute closed; the original lectures were the most significant part of the Objectivist corpus that remained to be recovered.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0372
R. Long
abstract:The author reviews Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand's Political Philosophy, edited by Gregory Salmieri and Robert Mayhew, and finds it to be a rich and provocative anthology. However, the author is unpersuaded by the arguments, from a number of the contributors, for separating the prohibition on initiatory force as an ethical principle, from individual rights as a political principle—a separation that, on the ethical side, unduly discards the Aristotelean ethical approach with which Randian ethics claims affiliation, and on the political side, is employed to ground an unconvincing case for the legitimacy of the state.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0410
Onar Åm
abstract:A thorough academic discussion of Jordan Peterson's work has been conspicuously absent—until now. Despite being addressed to an academic audience, Myth, Meaning, and Antifragile Individualism, by Marc Champagne, is written in a well-crafted, straightforward style accessible to the informed layperson. The book's first part offers an invaluable introduction to Peterson's work within an academic framework. The second part offers critiques of Peterson's work, some of which are prudent and others of which are weaker. The book is an essential contribution to anyone who wants to better understand Peterson's ideas and scrutinize them in a rational context.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0328
Allen P Mendenhall
abstract:This review essay evaluates The Dialectics of Liberty, a recent collection, edited by Roger E. Bissell, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, and Edward W. Younkins. It describes the dialectical turn in libertarian political and economic theory and analyzes the diverse contributions to dialectics by the various authors in this volume.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0340
C. Sciabarra
abstract:This review of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government, by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins, lauds its virtues, while criticizing its tendencies toward a partial and one-sided understanding of the nature of the revolution it extols. In bracketing out a deeper analysis of the role of business in the creation of modern corporatist political economy and the debilitating effects of war and the national security state on markets at home and abroad, the authors ultimately fail to provide the more robust defense of freedom that Rand's project implies.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0424
M. Gladstein
abstract:Lisa Duggan's book, Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed, offers an extremely negative portrait of Rand's ideas as the height of meanness and greed and the perfect embodiment for the political era of Donald Trump. Its unbalanced and hostile presentation of Rand's philosophy and impact is not for those who seek a more objective approach to Objectivism.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.2.0427
Molly Sechrest
abstract:The author reviews Bucking the Artworld Tide: Reflections on Art, Pseudo Art, Art Education & Theory, a collection of essays on the visual arts by Michelle Marder Kamhi. In her view, Kamhi presents a compelling case against the modernist and postmodernist inventions that have come to dominate the artworld since the early twentieth century—from abstract work to "conceptual art." Citing countless paintings, sculptures, and works of purported art, these essays (informed by the principles of Rand's aesthetic theory) offer sparkling nuggets of insight into what art is, what it is not, and why.
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