... visitor in 1926 but remained for the rest of her life. Later, she would also defy the cultural and political views of contemporary America in such best-selling novels as Atlas Shrugged. Her unique philosophy, Objectivism, challenged the cultural tradition of 2,500 years. She attained a worldwide fame and a readership numbering in the millions. Yet, Ayn Rand achieved these results as a ... and why philosophical ideas matter, in our personal lives, in movie theaters, book stores and art museums, in parliament or Congress (Peikoff p. 2). Rand's philosophy is presented in detail in Atlas S...

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... to be moral. Rand challenged this attitude, which can be seen on entering into the world of her fictional characters in such novels as We the Living, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Rand rejects what was called by her the "mind - body dichotomy" because man, in her opinion, is a being of integrated body and soul. That is why she rejects the mind ... ...

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