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Article: Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical.
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- Reason
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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During the 1930s, with the United States deep in Depression, with its intellectuals overwhelmingly favoring various forms of statism and collectivism, a few valiant and lonely voices - Isabel Paterson, Albert Jay Nock, Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand - spoke out in the name of liberty and individualism. Among them, Rand pushed the defense of individual liberty beyond political philosophy to ethics, and finally beyond ethics to epistemology and metaphysics. To what extent were her philosophical explorations shaped by the fact that her first 20 years were lived in Russia, during the tumultuous upheavals that eventually produced the Revolution of 1917 and the Soviet Union? That is ...
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