Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (116 page)

Taylor, Joan Kennedy,
431n. 59

taxation,
263–64
, 319, 322,
345
,
349
,
441n. 28

technology,
320–22

terrorism,
318

Thales,
121

theater,
417n. 24

theory,
24–25
,
276

thinking.
See
consciousness

Think Twice
(Rand),
417n. 24

Thomas, Paul,
246
,
261

Thorslev, Peter L.,
15
,
405nn. 42
,
44
,
46

thought.
See
ideas

Thus Spake Zarathustra
(Nietzsche),
414n. 38
,
416n. 8
,
418n. 40

Tiumenev, A. I.,
74
,
371

Toffler, Alvin,
350

Tolstaya, Tatyana,
23

Tolstoy, Leo,
432n. 7
,
448n. 72

Torres, Louis,
418n. 30

Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism
(Sciabarra), xi, xii

totalitarianism.
See also
authoritarianism

authoritarianism and,
12–13
,
452n. 53

communism and, 88–89,
94

Marxism and,
12–13
,
37–38

Objectivism and,
353–55

“The Only Path to Tomorrow” (Rand) and,
105–6

sex and,
37

statism and, 37–38

unity and,
29

Tracinski, Robert,
402n. 5

trade,
235
,
269–70
,
315
,
377–78

transcendence,
15–16
,
25–26
,
32
, 50, 119, 148–49, 220–21,
228–29
.
See also
integration; synthesis

Trebesnul, N. A.,
378

Trotsky, Leon,
82
,
350–52

truth

epistemology and,
145

Hegel and,
35
,
58

intuition and,
34

language and, 291

Objectivism and,
428n. 55

philosophy and,
116

Russian philosophy and,
25
,
26
,
28–29

Tuccille, Jerome,
421n. 6

Tucker, Benjamin,
260

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich,
66

“Types of Worldviews” (Lossky),
370
,
396

The Unconquered
(Rand),
417n. 24

unintended consequences,
208–9
,
210–11
,
213–14

United Nations,
451n. 49

units,
157
,
158–59
,
162–63
,
191

unity.
See also
organicism

collectivism and,
37–38

epistemology and, 117

ethics and,
29
,
228

freedom and,
25
,
26

history and,
372–73

in ideal-realism,
34

language and,
294–96

literature and,
197

Lossky and,
50
,
53–54

love and,
239

Marxism and,
37–38

ontology and,
117
,
123–24

religion and,
25
,
29

sex and,
32

sobornost’
and,
26
,
37
,
352–53
,
355

statism and,
37–38

totalitarianism and,
29

truth and,
28–29
,
35

utopianism,
138
,
343–44

Val’dgauer, O. F.,
371–72

values

abstraction and,
99–100

action and,
222
,
224–27

art and,
191–92

articulation and,
200

capitalism and,
273
,
307

circularity and,
225
,
226

context and,
221–22

definition of, 221–22, 228

epistemology and,
221–22
,
226–27

ethics and,
215–28
,
240–43

facts and,
215–21
,
222

freedom and,
99–100

happiness and,
240–43

life and,
221–27

ontology and,
221–22
,
226–27

productive work as,
240–41

purpose and,
228
,
230–32

rationality and,
240–42

reason as,
228

relations and,
221–22
,
226–27

religion and,
97

self-esteem as,
228
,
233–35

society and,
357

totalitarianism and,
13

unity and,
228

virtues and,
226–27
,
240–43

volition and, 224–27

Veatch, Henry,
240

Vietnam War,
294–95
,
317

Vilga, Helena Posener,
412n. 11

Vinogradov, P.,
74
,
373

Vinogradsky, Sergei Nikolaevich,
371

The Virtue of Selfishness
(Rand),
110
,
111
,
235
,
264

virtues,
219
,
227–36
,
240–43

visibility,
238–40

Vladimir of Kiev,
409n. 6

The Voice of Reason
(Rand),
111

volition.
See also
autonomy; freedom

articulation and,
200

causality and,
137

as concept,
132

conception and,
156–57
,
161

consciousness and,
131
,
137
,
152–54
,
165
,
182
, 201,
252

dialectics and,
16

epistemology and,
152–54
,
161
,
252

ethics and,
224–27

focus and,
152–54

history and,
9–10
, 16

humankind and,
137

life and,
224–27

measurement and,
161

ontology and,
137
, 165

perception and,
154

philosophy and,
201

rationality and,
228

rights and,
258
,
259

science and,
426n. 24

sense of life and,
181
,
182

senses and,
154

sex and,
187–88

values and,
224–27

Volsky, Stanislav,
32–33

Vvedenksy, Aleksandr Ivanovich,
40
,
78
,
81
,
365
, 366, 369,
459n. 6
,
460n. 8

Wallace, George,
330

Walsh, George,
7
,
139
,
139
,
140–41
,
443n. 52
,
448n. 77

Ward, James,
409n. 12

warfare,
265
, 294–95,
315–18

We
(Zamiatin),
37
,
86

Weber, Max,
435
.
See also
Rand, Ayn, Weberian view of politics

Weidle, Vladimir Vasilyevich,
414n. 35

Weinstein, James,
311

welfare,
259–60
,
265
,
314
,
315–16
,
318
,
329
,
345

We the Living
(film),
417n. 17

We the Living
(Rand)

altruism and,
96–97

as autobiographical,
37–38
,
390
,
393
,
414n. 37
,
463n. 4
,
464n. 7
, 468n. 111

communism in, 37–38,
91
,
93–98

education in,
73

egalitarianism and,
95–96

ethics in,
230

individualism and,
97–98
,
118

Lossky and,
388–90
,
393
,
468n. 111

Petrograd in,
68

privacy and,
98

purges in,
86–87

statism and,
97–98
, 118,
416n. 71

What is to be done?
(Chernyshevsky),
27

“Who Is Ayn Rand” (Branden),
384
,
395

Who Is Ayn Rand
(Branden and Branden),
395

Widmer, Kingsley,
353

Wilson, Woodrow,
315–16

Windelband, Wilhelm,
40
,
396

The World as an Organic Whole
(Lossky),
40
,
42
,
53–54

The World as a Whole
(Strakhov),
27

Wright, Frank Lloyd,
418n. 33

writing.
See also
literature

in childhood,
64
,
66

early years of,
91–92

journals,
78–79
,
91
,
96
,
97
,
98–100
,
418n. 27
,
461n. 19

Wrong, Dennis,
251

Wundt, Wilhelm,
40

You Came Along
(Rand),
106

Zamiatin, Evgeny Ivanovich,
37
,
86
,
104

Zelenko, V. A.,
377
,
387

Zelinsky, Faddei Frantsevich,
371
,
459n. 7

Zemstvo Gymnasium,
382

Zenkovsky, Nicolas,
373
,
411n. 30
,
415n. 55

Zernova, T. Z.,
363

the zero, reification of.
See
reification, of the zero

Zielinsky, Faddei Frantsevich,
77

ILLUSTRATIONS

FIG
. 1 Nicholas Onufrievich Lossky (1870–1965), Ayn Rand’s philosophy teacher at Petrograd University. Photo taken in the United States, 1950. (Courtesy of Boris Lossky)

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FIG
. 2 The Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg. In 1924, Ayn Rand lectured tourists on the fortress’s history. (Courtesy of Boris Lossky)

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FIG
. 3 Nathaniel and Barbara Branden at their wedding, 1953. (Courtesy of Nathaniel Branden)

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