Word: rand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asked about her views of Barry Goldwater, Miss Rand replied, "He appears promising." She approved of his foreign policy, but on domestic issues proclaimed him "a mixed economist...
...professional businessman and the professional intellectual, both born with the advent of capitalism, are well on their way toward wiping each other out, Ayn Rand declared at the Ford Hall Forum last night. And, she noted, the intellectual is largely to blame for his own demise...
...Miss Rand explained the present "intellectual disintegration" in terms of a conflict between Reason and Mysticism, the struggle between rational understanding and claims to irrational knowledge...
According to Miss Rand, the moral standard of altruism--which she defined as the antithesis of capitalism--is responsible for our inability to maintain a true laissezz faire capitalism. Afraid to challenge the morality of altruism, the liberals placed the blame for their own weaknesses on the head of the private businessman, "using their own guilt as an excuse for extending their power...
Mysticism, collectivism, and altruism are diametrically opposed to reason, individualism, and capitalism, Miss Rand asserted. Every man, she said, is an end in himself. He must neither sacrifice himself to others or sacrifice others to himself. She called the morality of altruism "moral cannibalism," stating that the consistent altruist "would have to jump into the nearest cannibal pot, because there is always somebody who wants your mind or body...