Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology - Expanded Second Edition

Ayn Rand

Meridian

1990

313 páginas

10h 26m

ISBN-10: 0452010306

Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that torrent of nihilism, and she provides the alternative in this eloquent presentation of the essential nature -- and power -- of man's conceptual faculty. She offers a startlingly original solution to the problem that brought about the collapse of modern philosophy: the problem of universals. This brilliantly argued, superbly written work, together with a remarkable essay by philosophy professor Leonard Peikoff, is vital reading for all those who seek to discover that human beings can and should live by the guidance of reason

And now Ayn Rand's masterwork has been greatly expanded to include never-before-published excerpts from a series of near legendary workshops on Objectivist epistemology that Ayn Rand conducted between 1969 and 1971. These workshops were opportunities for a select group of professionals in the fields of philosophy, physics, and mathematics to question Rand about her theory of concepts. This is a rare opportunity to witness Ayn Rand in action -- in the swift cut-and-parry of debate -- at the very peak of her intellectual prowess and power