Ayn Rand — "If a man is right, he has no reason to fear the judgment of others. If he is wro…"

If a man is right, he has no reason to fear the judgment of others. If he is wrong, he has no reason to wish that judgment withheld.
Ayn Rand — Ayn Rand Modern · Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged

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About Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Russian-American novelist (The Fountainhead, 1943; Atlas Shrugged, 1957) and Objectivist philosopher whose ethical egoism and capitalism-as-virtue shaped American libertarianism. Closely associated with Nathaniel Branden (her early Objectivist-movement collaborator and lover). For an intellectual contrast, see John Rawls, Harvard political philosopher (1921-2002) — Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971) systematized exactly the egalitarian-redistributive liberalism Rand's Atlas Shrugged was structured to attack. Rand's 'sanction of the victim' and Rawls's 'veil of ignorance' are the two opposite founding intuitions of American political philosophy — selfish-flourishing-as-virtue vs fairness-from-original-position.

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The Virtue of Selfishness

Date: 1964

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