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This book presents a comprehensive survey of Ayn Rand’s Objectivist philosophy, based on Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s 1976 lecture series "The Philosophy of Objectivism." Rand, who attended the lectures, helped shape the material and endorsed it as the most accurate presentation of her ideas. Peikoff, Rand’s designated heir and chief interpreter, explores every branch of philosophy she treated as essential—certainty, logic, art, money, measurement, and sex—illustrating each theme with quotations from Rand’s works and new insights gained from their private discussions. The result is a clear, cogent account of Objectivism’s abstract fundamentals and their practical applications in everyday life, providing readers—especially those familiar with Rand’s novels—the full philosophical system underlying her portrayal of an ideal society.
First publish date: 1991
Genre: Philosophy/Metaphysics
Authors: Leonard Peikoff
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