The first book she published was For the New Intellectual , a collection of the philosophic speeches from her novels. The book begins with a lengthy essay in which Rand argues that America and Western civilization are in desperate need of a new philosophy and new intellectuals.
For the New Intellectual has sold over 1 million copies. In the subsequent selections, culled from her novels, Rand presents the outline of her philosophy of reason, which she calls Objectivism. Americans have known how to erect a superlative material achievement in the midst of an untouched wilderness, against the resistance of savage tribes. What we need today is to erect a corresponding philosophical structure, without which the material greatness cannot survive.
A skyscraper cannot stand on crackerbarrels, nor on wall mottoes, nor on full-page ads, nor on prayers, nor on meta-language. The new wilderness to reclaim is philosophy, now all but deserted, with the weeds of prehistoric doctrines rising again to swallow the ruins.
To support a culture, nothing less than a new philosophical foundation will do. But her view of good and evil differed so radically from others that she had to originate her own philosophy. In order to define, explain and present my concept of man, I had to become a philosopher. The events are the concretes and the particulars, of which the speeches are the abstract summations. Rand herself was a crusader for justice, and the speeches from her novels capture this crusading spirit.
Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. But, Rand notes, money can be pursued in the wrong way. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Rand does not equate life with momentarily avoiding death.
In For the New Intellectual , Rand submits our conventional notions of good and evil to rigorous challenge. In the process, she asks questions no one has ever asked and argues that the championing of selflessness and sacrifice reveals a morality geared to death. If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?
If the sensation of eating a cake is a value, why is it an immoral indulgence in your stomach, but a moral goal for you to achieve in the stomach of others? Publication date Topics intellectual Collection opensource Language English. This is Ayn Rand 's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create.
One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy--and ethic of rational self-interest--that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality--"a philosophy for living on Earth"--are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.
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