Movement of individuals who seek to study and advance Objectivism
This article is about adherents to the philosophy of Ayn Rand. For the modernist literary movement, see objectivist poets.
Objectivist movement
Ayn Rand
Philosophy
Objectivism Rational egoism
Individualism Capitalism
Romantic realism
Organizations
Ayn Rand Institute The Atlas Society Nathaniel Branden Institute Objectivist Party
Libertarianz
Theorists
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Institute
Leonard Peikoff
Allan Gotthelf
Harry Binswanger
Tara Smith
Andrew Bernstein
Yaron Brook
John Ridpath
Other
David Kelley
George Reisman
Tibor Machan
Stephen Hicks
Nathaniel Branden
Alan Greenspan
Literature
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal For the New Intellectual Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology The New Left Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Philosophy: Who Needs It The Romantic Manifesto The Virtue of Selfishness Objectivist periodicals The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged
Related topics
Objectivism and homosexuality Objectivism and libertarianism Objectivism's rejection of the primitive Randian hero
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The Objectivist movement is a movement of individuals who seek to study and advance Objectivism, the philosophy expounded by novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. The movement began informally in the 1950s and consisted of students who were brought together by their mutual interest in Rand's novel, The Fountainhead. The group, ironically named "The Collective" due to their actual advocacy of individualism, in part consisted of Leonard Peikoff, Nathaniel Branden, Barbara Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Allan Blumenthal. Nathaniel Branden, a young Canadian student who had been greatly inspired by The Fountainhead, became a close confidant and encouraged Rand to expand her philosophy into a formal movement. From this informal beginning in Rand's living room, the movement expanded into a collection of think tanks, academic organizations, and periodicals.
Rand described Objectivism as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute".[1] Objectivism's main tenets are: that reality exists independently of consciousness; direct realism, that human beings have direct and inerrant cognitive contact with reality through sense perception; that one can attain objective conceptual knowledge based on perception by using the process of concept formation and inductive logic; rational egoism, that the moral purpose of one's life is the achievement of one's own happiness through productive work; that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism; and that art is "a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments."
^"About the Author" in Rand 1992, pp. 1170–71
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