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portada Philosophy: Who Needs it
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
1984
Language
English
Pages
228
Format
Paperback
ISBN
0451138937
ISBN13
9780451138934
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Philosophy: Who Needs it

Ayn Rand (Author) · Signet · Paperback

Philosophy: Who Needs it - Ayn Rand

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Synopsis "Philosophy: Who Needs it "

Who needs philosophy? Ayn Rand's answer: EVERYONE. This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand (St. Petersburg, 1905; New York, 1982) was a writer and philosopher born in Russia and naturalized American. After publishing her first two novels, We the Living (1936) and Anthem (1938), she achieved success with The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), her magnum opus. In these works, Rand developed her philosophy, known as Objectivism, in which she concretizes her original vision of man as «a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute».

Later, she would establish the theoretical foundations of this philosophy in her non-fiction books: Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1979), The Virtue of Selfishness (1964), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966), and The Romantic Manifesto (1969).

Her legacy continues to be enormously influential among conservatives and libertarians, both in the United States and around the world, because it directly confronts the acquired cultural inertia, challenging the axis «mysticism-altruism-collectivism» and replacing it with a philosophy based on: «reason-selfishness-capitalism».
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Rodrigo Iturrieta Sunday, June 06, 2021
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Muchos ensayos interesantes y contingentes. La calidad del libro es la que cabe esperar en estás ediciones pero su contenido no ha sufrido el paso del tiempo.

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