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Last year, a group of students decided that Ayn Rand's objectivist ideas should be receiving more attention on the Harvard campus...
...many years, the Objectivist Club--devoted to promoting the philosophy Rand founded--had been inactive, with membership declining to fewer than 10 students...
...Objectivist Club is undertaking an extensive advertising campaign on campus to promote the lecture series...
...Objectivist Club also sponors video lectures and presentations throughout the year, Anderson says...
...virtues of two of Harvard's most notoriously unpopular programs: Expository Writing and the Core Curriculum. Professor Stanley Cavell's Moral Reasoning core, Moral Perfectionism, inspired him to study philosophy. This was already a nascent interest: During his first year at Harvard, Ben-Shachar founded the campus Objectivist Club, but by his sophomore year he no longer ran it. Now he doesn't considers himself an Objectivist, noting the irony that Ayn Rand's highly individualist philosophy spawns "blind commitment" from her ideological "followers...