Word: objectivist
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President Reagan is today's greatest threat to world peace because he is a afraid to try to win an arms race with the Soviet Union, a leading objectivist philosopher told a crowd of 75 students at Harvard Hall last night...
Peter Schwartz, publisher of the leading objectivist journal, The Intellectual Activist, said Reagan's current defense policy amounts to nuclear reduction through negotiation and "is the most immoral doctrine we could adopt...
...argument is based on objectivism, which holds that man is the supreme end, man's own happiness is the moral purpose of his life, and harmony will be reached through each individual's struggle for economic success, said Linda Reardan, a graduate student of philosophy and member of the Objectivist Club...
...many of her dire predictions have come true, too little of her advice has been followed, complained Ideologue Ayn Rand, 70. And that, said the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, accounts for her decision to stop publishing the Ayn Rand Letter, her monthly four-page tract on objectivist philosophy and laissez-faire capitalism. "I intend to return, full time, to my primary work: writing books," she wrote to her 15,000 subscribers. "The state of today's culture is so low that I do not care to spend my time watching and discussing it. I am haunted...
...California, as elsewhere, many disaffected rightists turned to Ayn Rand; whose objectivist teachings elevated capitalism from economics to religion. Rand shares Buckley's fear, if not his paranoia, about communism; but she philosophizes that communism can be defeated only by capitalism-the rational, selfish, non-altruistic, objective relationship of free people in a free enterprise system. Buckley and his followers, she feels, are traitors to capitalism and are the antithesis of all the qualities a capitalist needs; i. e., Buckleyites are irrational, romantic, superstitious, altruistic, and too confused by their worship of "tradition" to be objective...