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on concentration camps,
287–89

on concepts, 125

on consciousness,
199–200

on context,
136

on contradiction,
129

on dialectics,
360

on dualism,
122
,
420n. 5

on education,
413n. 26

on egoism,
218

on emotions,
183
,
185–87
,
429n. 10
,
430n. 36

on epistemology,
437n. 39

on ethics,
437n. 39

on facts,
424n. 49
,
435n. 2

on focus,
426n. 26

on happiness,
242–43

on Hegel,
113–14
,
459n. 2

on history,
339
,
457n. 22

on identity,
131

illustration of,
113

Kelley and,
4

language and,
290

on life,
226

on logic,
126

on Marxism,
408n. 31

on measurement,
161

on moralism,
247

on objectivism,
425n. 5

Objectivism and,
4
,
113–14
,
117
,
420n. 54

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
,
2

on omniscience,
207

on ontology,
123–24
,
421n. 9
,
422n. 22
,
423nn. 37
,
40

on perception,
150
,
425n. 20

on philosophy,
420n. 60

on pleasure,
428n. 1

on pride,
233

psychology and,
167
,
168
,
342–43
,
430n. 33
,
431n. 51

on racism,
326

on rationalism,
131
,
204–5

on reason,
183
,
185–87

on reification,
404n. 28

on relations,
423n. 34

on religion,
448n. 77
,
457n. 25

on science,
428n. 54
,
436n. 23

on socialism,
267

on terrorism,
452n. 57

values and,
443n. 70

on virtues,
437n. 37

on
We the Living
(Rand),
414n. 37

on Windelband,
40

work of generally, 2,
7

Penthouse Legend
(Rand),
418n. 24

people.
See
humankind

perception

abstraction and,
161

Aristotle and,
46–47
,
48

art and,
192–93

awareness and,
156–57
,
171–72

conception and,
150
,
152
,
156–57
,
161
,
171–72

consciousness and,
149–52
,
154
,
156–57
,
169
, 171–72,
179

differentiation and,
157

emotions and,
171–72

empiricism and,
204–8

epistemology and,
143–52
,
154
,
156–57
,
161
,
171–72

ethics and,
224

focus and,
154

identity and,
150–51
,
157

integration and,
150
,
156–57

language and,
426n. 22

Lossky and,
43–44
,
46–47
,
59

objectivism and,
150–51

Objectivism and,
150

omniscience and,
147

ontology and,
140–42
,
147
,
169

rationalism and,
204–8

realism and,
143–49

reason and,
145
,
154–55
,
156
,
171–72

relations and,
59
,
150
,
156–57
,
238–39

science and,
151–52

self-esteem and,
238

sensation and,
149–52
,
156–57

subjectivism and,
150–51

visibility and,
238–39

volition and,
154

Personalist
,
42

personality,
3
, 11,
32
.
See also
character

personal life,
2–3
, 23, 40–43, 62–63

Peter and Paul Fortress,
87
,
88

Peter the Great,
404n. 29

Petrograd,
68

Petrograd State University

purges from,
72
, 81–82, 85,
86–87
, 368,
463n. 4
,
464n. 8

Rand educated at,
72–85
, 87,
303
,
363–80
,
381–91
,
393–99

records from, 75,
363–64
, 366–67,
381–88
, 393–94,
406n. 1
,
416n. 68
,
467n. 7

Russian Revolution changes,
68–72
, 73, 77–78,
85–87

Petrushevsky, D. M.,
74

The Phenomenology of Spirit
(Hegel),
28

Phillips, R. P.,
422n. 26

The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand
(Den Uyl and Rasmussen),
2

philosophy.
See also
Russian philosophy

art and,
194–95

articulation and,
197–201

capitalism and,
349–50

concepts in,
123
,
124–33

consciousness and,
197–201

context and,
5–6

culture and,
337–39
, 344

dialectics and,
90–91
,
340–41

dualism and,
121–22

education and, 8, 11, 17,
39–40
,
66
,
72
,
76–85
,
304
,
363
,
366–70
,
381
, 385, 396–97,
415n. 59
,
459nn. 6–7

epistemology and,
339–40

ethics and, 344

function of,
197–201

history and,
5–6
,
335–43
,
363
,
381

integration and,
200–201

literature and,
90–91
, 98–99,
194–95

Marx and,
35

materialism and,
340–41

mathematics of,
99

Objectivism and,
11–13
,
346–47
,
349–50

ontology and,
116–17

personality and,
3

psychology and,
167–68
,
342–43

rationality and,
344

reason and, 200–201,
339–40
,
342

relations and,
123–24

religion and,
201

science and,
116
,
120–21
,
122–24
, 133

social theory and,
344

synthesis and,
63–64
,
276

tacit dimensions and,
197–201

truth and,
116

volition and, 201

Philosophy: Who Needs It
(Rand),
111

Plato

dualism and,
122

education and,
39
, 79,
80

idealism and,
48

Lossky and,
39
,
45
,
48
,
79
,
80

ontology and,
121

philosophy and,
335

Rand and generally,
11

reification and,
48

Vvedenksy and, 397

Platonov, Sergei Fyodorovich,
75
,
372

pleasure,
240–41

Plekhanov, G. V.,
36

pluralism,
133–34

plurality,
53–54
,
59

Pollock, Channing,
105

Pokrovsky, M. N.,
74
,
81
,
368
,
390

Pola Negri
(Rand),
461n. 19

Polanyi, Michael,
198
,
199
,
200

polarization,
295
,
296

politics.
See
social theory

Popper, Karl,
13
,
14
,
354
,
359–60

pornography,
331

positivism,
28

poverty, 245–46, 259–60,
314

power.
See also
force

capitalism and,
301–2
,
311
, 312, 314

culture and,
301–2
, 304

dualism and,
307–9

education and,
304

fragmentation and,
307

humankind and,
277–78
, 279–89

irrationality and,
301–2
, 304

language and,
278
,
289–96

Objectivism and,
347–49

psychology and,
283–89

relations and,
276–79
,
301–2
,
307

social theory and,
276–79
,
301–2
,
304

statism and, 278,
289
,
307–9
, 311, 312, 314

practice,
24–25
,
276

Presniakov, Aleksandr Evgen’evich,
373–74

presumptuousness,
233

pride,
228
,
232–34

privacy,
98

productive work

action and,
253–54

capitalism and,
268–73
,
282
,
307
,
308–9

consciousness and, 253–54

creativity and,
238

efficacy and,
213
,
253–54

ethics and,
240–42

history and,
230–32
,
341

property and,
259

rationality and,
230–31
,
240–42
,
356

reason and,
230–31
,
428n. 8

rights and,
256
,
259

statism and,
308–9
, 319, 322

as value,
240–41

as virtue,
228
,
230–32

Proletkult
,
68–69

property,
256
,
258–59
,
263–64
,
270
,
349

Protagoras,
415n. 59

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph,
260

pseudo-self-esteem,
278
,
283–84

psycho-epistemology

art and,
192–93

Branden and,
167

capitalism and, 312–13

consciousness and,
177
,
181–82

efficacy and,
202

empiricism and,
205–6

ethics and,
244–45

Objectivism and,
348

racism and,
324–25

rationalism and,
214

sense of life and,
432n. 11

psychology.
See also
psycho-epistemology

awareness and,
177–82
,
184–85

consciousness and,
169–73
,
177–88

dualism and,
167–68

education and, 365

efficacy and,
283–84

egalitarianism and,
447n. 66

egoism and,
247

emotions in,
168–77
,
182–88

epistemology and,
167
,
168
,
244–47

ethics and,
244–47

experience and,
177–78

history and,
342–43

integration and,
173
,
177
,
182–88

mind-body dichotomy and,
184–85

Objectivism and,
167–68
,
353–54
,
420n. 64

philosophy and,
167–68
,
177
,
342–43

power and,
283–89

reason in,
168–77
,
182–88

relations and,
283–89

self-esteem and,
167
,
247

sense of life in,
177
,
178–81

social metaphysics,
167

purpose,
228
,
230–32
,
240–43

Pushkin, A. S.,
66

Pythagoreans,
122

rabfaks
(workers’ colleges),
85

racism,
16
,
324–29
,
330

radicalism

capitalism and,
266
,
274
,
279
,
350

epistemology and,
159–60

New Intellectuals and,
350

Objectivism and,
2
,
8–10

Russian culture and,
8–10

social theory and,
x–xii

Raimondo, Justin,
419n. 47

Ralston, Richard E.,
466n. 2

Rand, Ayn

Anthem
,
37–38
,
73
,
104–5
,
110

Atlas Shrugged
,
1
,
12
,
91
,
104
,
106–10
,
118
,
124–25
,
130
,
154–55
,
170
,
171
,
174–75
,
196
,
216
,
221
,
232
,
237
,
241
,
252
,
270
,
280–81
,
292
,
320–21
,
343–44
,
350
, 351–52,
422n. 29
,
440n. 86
,
457n. 20

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