Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0151
F. Seddon
ABSTRACT:The reviewer looks at Roger E. Bissell's latest work, What's in Your File Folder? Essays on the Nature and Logic of Propositions. He considers a range of topics including propositions, syllogisms, the meaning of existence, the nature of entities and characteristics, axioms, causality, and logic, among others.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0121
Steven H. Shmurak
ABSTRACT:In Independent Judgment and Introspection: Fundamental Requirements of the Free Society, Jerry Kirkpatrick maintains that a free society can exist only when a sufficient number of people have healthy psycho-epistemologies. He identifies fundamental aspects in our culture that work against this end. Building on the work of Objectivist psychologist Edith Packer, he presents a process for improving one's psycho-epistemology. Kirkpatrick also traces the history of child-rearing practices and relates the process of change to the work of many other psychologists including Horney, Freud, Ellis, and Rogers.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0004
Dennis C. Hardin
ABSTRACT:Understanding Objectivism was Leonard Peikoff's first major teaching endeavor following Ayn Rand's death in 1982. Like Nathaniel Branden's 1971 book The Disowned Self—written after his break with Rand—the lectures addressed complaints reported by students of the philosophy, subject matter Rand may not have approved. Peikoff faults the common mistake of looking at Objectivism through the lens of traditional philosophy. He clarifies the distinct nature of objective methodology and shows how traditional philosophy is hostage to the pernicious mind-body dichotomy. Despite Peikoff's gracious display of empathy, the promise of a more benign nascent Objectivist vanguard was short-lived.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.20.1.0125
Stephen Cox
ABSTRACT:
Posthumous publication of Ayn Rand's novella Ideal and her play The Unconquered provides an opportunity to assess her early work. The Unconquered is an unfortunate theatrical dramatization of her novel We the Living. Ideal, which was written first as a novella and then as a play, is the inadequate presentation of a provocative idea. Editorial packaging of The Unconquered is extensive and informative; of Ideal, slight and confused. Especially regrettable is the theory of genres presented in place of editorial commentary on Ideal.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-23DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.19.2.0192
T. Camplin
ABSTRACT:In literary works as in architecture, form follows function. There are clear differences among novels, epics, lyrics, and plays, and what the author wishes to say determines which genre works best. The Night of January 16th could only be written as a play; The Fountainhead could only be written as a novel; Anthem could only be written as a novella. Using the recent work by Frederick Turner, Epic: Form, Content, and History, the author attempts to demonstrate that Atlas Shrugged is an epic in the tradition of The Iliad, Moby Dick, and Lord of the Rings.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-23DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.19.2.0170
Samantha Ann Opperman
ABSTRACT:Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is not just a fully actualized rendition of her Objectivist philosophy, but a symbol of the possibility of postfeminism in a postindustrial world. Rand's postfeminist signifier, Dagny Taggart, is able to attain this ideal of equality only through the catharsis of the physical relationships with men whom Dagny considers her spiritual equals. The men in Dagny's life each contribute a new awakening to her about herself as she, at the same time, awakens them.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-23DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.19.2.0243
A. Grigorovskaya
ABSTRACT:This article interprets Ayn Rand's last novel, Atlas Shrugged, through the lens of Trauma Studies. The author argues that the novel reflects Rand's traumatic experiences of the February and October revolutions in Russia and can be viewed as the means by which the author engaged in the process of what Dominick LaCapra has called "working-through."
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Pub Date : 2019-06-26DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.19.1.0083
R. Campbell
ABSTRACT:Leonard Peikoff brought into Objectivist epistemology the doctrine that what is asserted arbitrarily (without adequate evidence) cannot be true or false. In 2008 the author gave a detailed critique of the doctrine; it has not received a published response. But there have been restatements by Harry Binswanger, Ben Bayer, and Gregory Salmieri. Their re-presentations do not refute any old arguments; their new arguments make the doctrine worse. The doctrine is being used to justify ignoring known possibilities, and to "prove" that the current president of the United States has a parrot's mind in a human body. Its public retraction is overdue.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-26DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.19.1.0047
Roger E. Bissell
ABSTRACT:The author explains how Rand was absolutely correct in saying that Aristotle "stated the formula" of the Law of Identity. He corrects long-standing faulty Thomist criticisms on this issue and gives due credit to thinkers such as Antonius Andreas, Leibniz, and William Hamilton. The author further contends that the gradual shift in Objectivist usage of the Law of Identity (from "a thing is itself" to "a thing is what it is") tacitly ratifies these erroneous criticisms and has actually contributed to the failure of Objectivist thinkers to develop Rand's concept theory into a valid model of propositions and syllogisms.
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