Objectivism
A philosophy for living on Earth
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Advancing ideas of Objectivism
globally and building a world-wide
John Galt Network.
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Shaping a freer world through
a global network of
new intellectuals.
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“The name I have chosen for my philosophy is Objectivism.”
For the New Intellectual (1961), Ayn Rand
“At a sales conference at Random House, preceding the publication of Atlas Shrugged, one of the book salesmen asked me whether I could present the essence of my philosophy while standing on one foot. I did as follows:
- Metaphysics:Objective Reality
- Epistemology:Reason
- Ethics:Self-interest
- Politics:Capitalism
If you want this translated into simple language, it would read: 1. ‘Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed’ or ‘Wishing won’t make it so.’ 2. ‘You can’t eat your cake and have it, too.’ 3. ‘Man is an end in himself.’ 4. ‘Give me liberty or give me death.’”
A short description of Objectivism given by Ayn Rand in 1962.
Ayn Rand was born
Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum (Russian: Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум) was born on February 2nd, 1905 in Saint Petersburg during the era of Tsarist Russia. It was during her youth that she witnessed enraged and starving workers/peasants joining the Bolshevik Revolution. Her father owned a pharmacy and her mother was a homemaker and socialite.
February 2, 1905
The Russian Revolution
The period of a constitutional monarchy, announced by Tsar Nicholas in order to give more fields to farmers and peasants and greater control of their yields, had its quick rise and fall. By 1917, such a system had been removed by the socialist and later on Communist regime.
March 8, 1917
Alisa Rosenbaum embarked alone on her journey to America
In time, the Communists consolidated power in Russia. Alisa received a letter from her relatives in Chicago, requesting that she visit them. During fall of 1925, Alisa got her passport and approval to travel to America for a period of 6 months. On February 10, 1926 she boarded the ship De Grasse in Paris and subsequently arrived in New York.
February 10, 1926
She started to work as an extra at Cecile B. DeMille’s Studio
She started working as a movie extra. She dreamed of being a writer one day, and now determined to become a movie script writer, she moved to Los Angeles and looked for a job in Hollywood. By means of her Chicago relatives, she got a contact in the film industry to write a letter of introduction to someone in the publicity department of Cecil B.
September 10, 1926
She met her husband Frank O’Connor
One morning, on her way to work, Rand met and was drawn to an actor named Frank O’Connor. He had a smaller role in the same movie that she was working on. She later found out from his brothers that he told them that he met an interesting Russian girl. However, his days on the set were limited and, afterward, she could not find him.
November 20, 1926
They got married
After a while, she met Frank once again, this time at a library, in the summer of 1927 and, in time, they fell in love. They wed on April 15, 1929 and they were married for more than 50 years, until Frank’s passing in 1979.
April 10, 1929
“The Fountainhead” was published
Rand finished “The Fountainhead“ on December 31st 1942, and it was published in May 1943. From conception to publication, it had taken Rand about nine years. By 1948, it had sold roughly 400,000 copies. Eventually, there was the New American Library paperback edition, and “The Fountainhead“ went on to sell over 6 million copies.
May 15, 1943
“Atlas Shrugged” was published
Rand wrote her next book, “Atlas Shrugged“, which she worked on for 14 years. Frank O’Connor urged her to use one of the chapter headings as the book title, and so the title “Atlas Shrugged“ was born. The book was published on October 10, 1957. Today, more than 30 million copies of Ayn Rand’s novels have been sold worldwide.
October 10, 1957
Ayn Rand passed away
Rand’s heart began to give out in December 1981. She hung on for three more months, asking her closest associate, Leonard Peikoff, to complete several projects. She died in her Manhattan apartment on March 6, 1982. She was buried next to Frank O’Connor in Valhalla, New York. She was 77.
March 6, 1982
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