Pub Date : 2019-06-26DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.19.1.0038
Lamont Rodgers
ABSTRACT:In this article, the author diagnoses the cause of Rand's problematic position on intellectual property. He argues that Rand treats credit as a very thick concept. Rand sees crediting a person with inventing something as granting that person a right to the money embodied in the invention, its sale, and the profits related to licensing reproduction. The author shows that this thick notion of credit leads Rand to make several questionable claims in her arguments for intellectual property rights.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-26DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.19.1.0001
S. Boydstun, Lamont Rodgers, Roger E. Bissell, R. Campbell
ABSTRACT:This article closely compares the opposing foundations of theoretical philosophy in René Descartes and Ayn Rand. The developmental course of Rand's foundations, with their continual opposition to Descartes, is tracked. Arguments particularly against Descartes are assembled in this article, and the bountiful contemporary scholarship on Descartes is engaged.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jaynrandstud.19.2.0259
Roger E. Bissell
In a previous essay (Bissell 2015a), I offered metaphysical and epistemological arguments in support of the logical harmony of determinism and volition. Using ideas from Aristotle and Ayn Rand, I presented a challenge to the false alternative of orthodox, mechanistic determinism and orthodox, libertarian free will (as well as indeterminism). In this essay, I will offer another metaphysical argument in support of value determinism and conditional volition—and against libertarian free will, The Non-Contradiction of Determinism
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0335
Sarah Weinman
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.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0229
Roger E. Bissell
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."
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0308
A. Grigorovskaya
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.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.2.0165
Kyle Barrowman
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.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-08DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0001
Eric B. Dent, J. Parnell, Shawn Carraher
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.
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Pub Date : 2018-08-08DOI: 10.5325/JAYNRANDSTUD.18.1.0043
A. Grigorovskaya
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.
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