This is a key-word index of some Objectivist source material. It is designed for computer searches. Just search for the word you want. *********** REFERENCES ************ ARL :The Ayn Rand Letter B# :The lectures on Basic Principles of Objectivism given by N. Branden L# :The Psychology of Romantic Love lectures RAA :The Revolt Against Affluence RPP :Role of Philosophy in Psychotherapy T# :Lectures on Principles of Efficient Thinking given by Barbara Branden. TEC :Tax-exempt Church TOA :Textbook of Americanism TOF or MmmYY-pp (Apr87-10) :The Objectivist Forum TPI :The Playboy Interview VOS :The Virtue of Selfishness (hardback - index) YY/Mmm/pp (67/May/11) :The Objectivist Newsletter or The Objectivist ********* Objectivist Newsletter ************* Abortion; 69/Feb/3; ARL383 (feticide); Jun81-3 Agnosticism; 63/Apr/15; Dec87-6 Alienation; 65/Jul/29 Altruism; 62/Jul/27; 63/Oct/39 Ambition; ARL51 American Philosophical Association; 70/Jun/1 Amoralist; ARL205 Amundsen:Roald; Apr87-10 Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy; 67/May/11 Anderson:Benjamin (Economics and the Public Welfare); 65/May/21 Anderson:Martin (The Federal Bulldozer); 66/Apr/8 ANDERSON:MARTIN; 65/May/21 Anthropology; Feb81-10 Anti-concept; ARL1; ARL197; ARL205 Anti-Industrial Revolution; 71/Jan/1 Antitrust; 62/Jan/1; 62/Feb/5; Jun80-6 Anxiety; 66/Nov/7 Apollo 11; 69/Sep/1; 69/Dec/1 Apollo 8; 68/Nov/16 Apollo; ARL157 Appeasement; 66/Jan/1 Arbitrary; Dec87-1 Architecture; Dec85-10 Argument from Intimidation; 64/Jul/25; ARL374 Arnold:Magda (Emotion and Personality); 66/Jan/12 Art/Cognition; 71/Apr/1 Art; 65/Apr/15; 66/Mar/1; 68/Nov/5: Dec82-1; TPI-11 Axiomatic Concepts; Feb87-4 Balance of Trade; Aug87-14 Barron:John (KGB Today:The Hidden Hand); Oct83-12 Barron:John (MIG Pilot); Aug80-10 Barzun (The American University); 68/Nov/11 Beck:Joan (How to Raise a Brighter Child); 68/Sep/11 Behaviorism; Feb80-10 Berlin; 62/Jan/4 Bessemer:Henry; Jun85-12 Beyond Freedom and Dignity; ARL33; ARL70 Biology Without Consciousness-And its Consequences; 68/Feb/5 Blanshard:Brand (Reason and Analysis); 63/Feb/7 Bludge mentality; Apr84-11 BLUMENTHAL:ALLAN; 69/Jun/6 BLUMENTHAL:JOAN; 64/Mar/11; 68/Nov/5 Bork:Robert; Oct87-7 Born Free (movie); 66/Sep/14 BRANDEN:BARBARA;62/Jan/2; 62/Mar/11; 62/Dec/54; 63/Jun/23; 66/Feb/14; 66/Sep/12; 66/Oct/7; 67/Apr/11 BRICK:AVIS; 67/Jun/13; 68/Jun/12; 68/Jul/8 Bucher:Lloyd; 69/Feb/1 Bullit (movie); 69/Jun/13 Buy American; Apr87-1 Capital Punishment; 63/Jan/3 Capitalism; 63/Nov/44; 65/Oct/47; 65/Nov/51; ARL338 Capote (In Cold Blood); 66/Feb/15 Capuletti:Jose Manuel; 66/Dec/12 Causality; 66/Mar/8 Censorship; ARL70; ARL229 Certainty; ARL286 Charly (movie); 69/Jun/11 Chess; ARL111 Child labor; 62/Apr/14 Christ; TPI-10 Chu:Valentin (Ta Ta Tan Tan); 63/Nov/42 Collectivism; TOA-3 Collins and Tamarkin (Marva Collins' Way); Aug86-11 Communism; ARL86 Competition; 68/Aug/8 Comprachicos; 70/Aug/1 Compromise; 62/Jul/29; 64/Jan/1 Conflicts of interests; 62/Aug/31 Consensus; 65/May/19; ARL85 Conspiracy; 69/Jan/10 Constitution; Nov67-9; Dec87-8 Consumerism; 65/Oct/47 Cooke:Janet (Jimmy's World); Aug81-2 Copyrights; 64/May/19 Core Evaluations; Feb85-3 Corruption Fallacy; ARL92 Covenant; ARL121; ARL375 see also the Covenant file folder Crane:Philip (The Democrat's Dilemma); 65/Oct/49 Creationism; Apr81-13 Creative; ARL178 Crocker:George (Roosevelt's Road to Russia); 64/Jan/2 Cultural Barometer; 66/Feb/14 et seq. Cultural Value-Deprivation; 66/Apr/1 Czechoslovakia; 68/Jul/8 Dear John (movie); 66/Sep 13 Democratic National Convention; ARL95 Depressions; 62/Aug/33 Determinism; 63/May/17 Draft; 67/Oct/10 Drury (Capable of Honor); 66/Oct/7 Drury (Preserve and Protect); 68/Dec/11 Drury (The Throne of Saturn); 71/May/11 DRURY:ALLEN; 69/Jan/9 Duty; 70/Jul/1 East Minus West = Zero (Keller); 62/Nov/48 Economics; 68/Aug/8; ARL337; Aug80-3; Aug82-3; Apr87-7; Aug87-12; TEC Education:Traditional/Progressive/Montessori; Jun84-10 Education; Aug82-10; Aug83-2; Oct83-1; Oct84-1; Aug86-11 EFRON:EDITH; 62/MAY/18 ;62/Nov/48; 63/Jul/26; 64/May/18 EFRON:ROBERT; 66/Jan/12; 67/Mar/8; 68/Feb/5 Egalitarianism; ARL333 Ekirch:Arthur (Decline of American Liberalism); 62/Jul/28 Election 1972; ARL133 Electrical Conspiracy; 62/Jan/1; 62/Feb/6 Ellis:Albert; 67/Dec/11 Emotions/Actions; 66/Jun/7 Emotions/Repression; 66/Aug/8 Emotions/Values; 66/May/1 Emotions; 62/Jan/3; Oct87-3 Energy Crisis; ARL257 Envy; 71/Jul/1 Epistemology; 66/Jul/1; 70/Mar/1; Oct84-3; Aug85-1; Dec86-1; Feb87-1 Establishment; ARL70 Esthetics; 62/Nov/49; 63/Oct/37; 65/Jan/1 Ethics of Emergencies; 63/Feb/5 Ethics; 63/Jan/1; 65/Feb/7 Existentialism; ARL291 Extremism; 64/Sep/35 F.C.C.; 62/Jan/1; 62/Mar/9; 63/Jul/25 Facts of Reality; Feb87-7 Fair Trade; Apr87-8 Fairness Doctrine; ARL77; ARL82 Falsifiability; Aug82-4 Fascism; ARL86 Federal Reserve; 66/Jul/14 Fertig:Lawrence (Prosperity Through Freedom); 62/Mar/10 First cause; 62/May/19 Fleming:Harold (Ten Thousand Commandments); 62/Apr/14 Flynn:John (Roosevelt Myth); 62/Dec/54 Force; the Covenant file folder Foreign aid; 62/Sep/37 Free Will; 64/Jan/3 Freud; Feb80-11 Friedan (Feminine Mystique); 63/Jul/26 Galbraith:John Kenneth (The Affluent Society); RAA Georgia Sodomy; Dec87-7; Oct86-13 Gish (Lillian Gish: The Movies Mr. Griffith and Me); 69/Nov/7 Goldwater:Barry; 64/Dec/49 Government financing; 64/Feb/7 Government; 63/Dec/45; TOA-7; TPI-12; CGG statism Gravity game; ARL292 Great White Hope (drama); 69/Apr/7 Greatest Good For the Greatest Number; TOA-10 GREENSPAN:ALAN; 62/Jan/4; 66/Jul/11 Hacker:Louis (The World of Andrew carnegie); 69/Apr/12 Hahn:Otto; Dec83-5 Hainstock (Teaching Montessori in The Home); 71/Jul/13 Hansel (ESP:A Scientific Evaluation); 67/Mar/8 Hardwick; Oct86-13; Dec87-7 Hazlitt (Economics in One Lesson); 62/Feb/6 Hedonism; 62/Feb/7; TPI-8 Hegel; Feb86-12 Heraclitus; Feb86-12 HESSEN:BEATRICE; 64/Jan/2; 66/Apr/8; 68/Jan/12; 68/Sep/11; 70/May/12; 71/Jul/13 HESSEN:ROBERT; 62/Feb/6; 62/Apr/14; 62/Jul/28; 62/Nov/51; 63/Nov/42; 68/Nov/11; 69/Apr/12; 70/Jan/9; 70/Aug/11 Hippies; ARL201 History; Oct85-1 Hoffman:Banesh; (The Tyranny of Testing); 64/Mar/11 HOLZER:ERIKA(PHYLLIS); 68/Dec/11; 69/Jun/10 HOLZER:HENRY and PHYLLIS; 67/Oct/10 Horror File; 65/Jun/25 et seq. HUAC testimony; Aug87-1 Hugo (Ninety-Three); 62/Oct/42 Hugo (The Man Who Laughs); 67/Dec/9 Humanae Vitae; 68/Sep/1 Huntford:Roland (The Last Place on Earth); Apr87-10 I Am Curious (yellow) (movie); 69/Dec/12 Ibsen:Henrik; 71/Apr/10 Idealism; 69/Jan/3 Imaginary numbers; Aug85-7 Imitation; ARL228 In the Heat of the Night (movie); 68/Jan/10 Individualism; 62/Apr/13; Feb86-9; TOA-3 Industrial Revolution; 62/Nov/51 Inflation; ARL301; ARL337; Aug80-8 Inherited Wealth; 63/Jun/22 Innocents; Dec83-6; TPI-10 Instincts; 62/Oct/43 Intellectual honesty; ARL287 Introspection; ARL289; Dec85-2 Irrationalism; 63/Jul/27 Jones:Joyce (Citizenship Education); 67/Jun/13 Jones:W.T. (A History of Western Philosophy); 64/Sep/36 Journalism; 69/Jan/9; Dec80-8; Aug81-1; Oct82-9 KAMM:HENRY; 69/Jan/1 Kant; 71/Sep/4; ARL290; ARL377; Jun87-3 Kaufmann (Philosophic Classics); 64/Sep/36 Keller:Werner (East Minus West = Zero); 62/Nov/48 Kennedy:J.F.; 62/May/17; 62/Jun/21 Kidder:Tracy (The Soul of a New Machine); Feb82-5 Knight:Frank H.; Jun80-6 Knowledge; Apr81-8 Kudirka:Simas; 71/Jan/13 Labor Unions; 63/Nov/43 Law of Comparative Advantage; Aug87-11 Law; Jun83-8 Libertarianism; Aug81-11 Linguistic Analysis; ARL291 Literary style; Jun84-6 Literature; 68/Jul/1 Lithuanian Sailor; 71/Jan/13 Logic; ARL287; Dec86-8 Love Story (movie); 71/Jun/10 LUDEL:SUSAN; 69/Jan/9; 69/Oct/8; 70/Mar/11; 70/Jul/10; 71/May/11 Lyons:Eugene (Workers' Paradise Lost); 68/Jan/12 Man for all Seasons (movie); 68/Jan/9 Man in the Glass Booth (drama); 69/Jul/12 Man of La Mancha (drama); 69/Apr/10 Marchenko (My Tesimony); 70/Jul/10 Marcuse:Herbert; 70/Sep/7 Marginal Utility; RAA-5 Marilyn Monroe; 62/Oct/45 Marxism; Apr80-8 Maturity; 65/Nov/53 McGovern; ARL85; ARL125 Medicine; 62/Jun/25; 63/Mar/11; Apr85-3 MELTZER:JOAN; 65/Oct/49 Mental Health; 63/Mar/9; 67/Feb/8 Merwin-Webster (Calumet K); 67/Oct/6 Metaphysical vs Man-made; ARL177; ARL287 Midnight Cowboy; 69/Dec/11 Mill:John Stuart; ARL252 Minow:Newton; 62/Jan/1; 62/Mar/9; 63/Jul/25 Miracle Worker; 70/Mar/7 Missing Link; ARL204 Mixed economy; 62/Mar/9 Money; 66/Jul/11; ARL338; Oct80-9 Monopolies; 62/Jun/23 Montessori Education; Jun84-7 Montessori; 70/May/12 Moral Grayness; 64/Jun/21 Movies; Feb83-9 Muttnik; 67/Dec/2 Nazism; 69/Feb/5; 69/Oct/1; 70/Apr/1; 71/Jan/8 NELSON:JOHN; 69/Aug/3 New Left; 70/Sep/7 Newspeak; ARL115; ARL357; ARL376 Nietzsche:Friedrich; Feb86-8 Ninth Amendment; Nov67-9 Nixon-China; ARL58 Nixon; 68/Jun/1; ARL5 Nuclear power; Dec80-2 O'CONNOR:FRANK; 69/Nov/7 Obituary; Feb82-1 Objectivism; 62/Aug/35; Jun82-8; Aug83-2 Open mind; ARL292 Oppenheimer:J Robert; Dec83-5 Our Man Flint (Movie); 66/Feb/14 Parents/Children; 62/Dec/55 Patents; 64/May/19 Paterson:Isabel (The God of the Machine); 64/Oct/42 Peaceniks; 62/Oct/44 Peikoff (Thirty Years with Ayn Rand); Jun87-1 Peikoff:Leonard (The Ominous Parallels); Apr82-9 PEIKOFF:LEONARD; 62/Feb/7; 62/Jun/25; 64/Sep/36; 69/Feb/5; 69/Oct/1; 70/Apr/1; 71/Jan/8; 71/Sep/4 Perfection; Feb81-1 Perry Mason; ARL225 Personal identity; Feb84-2 Philosophy: Who Needs It; ARL277 Philosophy; TPI-5 Pleasure; 64/Feb/5 Polarization; ARL1 Political crime; 70/May/1 Politics; 62/Jan/1; 66/Oct/12; Dec83-13; CGG Populorum Progressio; 67/Jul/1 Pornography; ARL230 Primacy of Existence; ARL177 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (drama); 69/Apr/9 Proof; Dec86-8; Dec87-4 Property; 69/Aug/4 Property Rights; 64/May/19 Prove a Negative; Apr81-11 Pseudo-Self-Esteem; 64/May/17 Psycho-Epistemology; 64/Oct/41 Psychoanalysis; Feb80-11 Psychological Visibility; 67/Dec/2 Psychologizing; 71/Mar/1 Psychology; ARL179; Oct82-5; Feb85-3 Psychotherapy; 69/Jun/6; RPP-1 Public interest; 62/Mar/9 Public Television; ARL151 Pueblo; 69/Feb/1 Purchase; ARL351 Quotas; ARL92 Radio; 64/Apr/13 Rand's Razor; Dec86-10 Randall:John (Aristotle); 63/May/18 Rationalization; ARL289; ARL290 Rattigan:Terence; 71/Mar/9 Rawls; ARL168 Reagan:Ronald; ARL382; Jun81-1 Reason; Oct87-1 Reds (movie); Feb82-9 Reduction; Dec86-4 Reflections in a Golden Eye (movie); 68/Jan/8 Rehnquist; ARL23 Reinforcer; Feb80-14 Reisman:George (The Government Against the Economy); Apr80-13 REISMAN:GEORGE; 68/Aug/8 Religion; Jun86-2; TPI-10 Report to Readers; 63/Dec/47; 64/Dec/51; 65/Apr/17; 65/Dec/57; 66/Apr/17 Representative Government; ARL91 Repression; 66/Aug/8 Right-to-Work; 63/Jun/23 Rights; 63/Apr/13; 63/Jun/21; ARL180; Oct82-3 Risking one's life; 64/Apr/15 Romantic Realism; Jun84-6 Romanticism; 69/May/1; 69/Aug/1 Rousseau; 69/Aug/7 Russell:Bertrand; Feb84-13 Ryan's Daughter (movie); 71/Jun/9 Samenow:Stanton (Inside the Criminal Mind); Apr84-8 Scheibla (Poverty is Where the Money Is); 69/Aug/9 Scholarships; 66/Jun/11 Schools; 63/Jun/22; ARL52 Schwab:Charles; ARL387 Science vs Ethics; 62/Oct/41 Science; ARL179; Aug85-8 Scott:Robert; Apr87-10 Sculpture; 69/Feb/10 Self-Esteem/Romantic Love; 67/Dec;1 Self-Esteem; 67/Mar/1 Selfish; 62/Sep/39 (Isn't Everyone Selfish?) Selfishness; Intro to VOS Sense of Life; 65/Mar/9; 66/Feb/1; 66/Mar/1; ARL15; Feb85-6 SeventeenSeventySix (drama); 70/Feb/10 Sex; ARL251; Aug84-1 Shockley:William; ARL255 Shrugging; 64/Aug/29; TPI-15 Shute:Nevil; Feb85-10 Simplistic-Complex; ARL119 Skinner; ARL33; ARL70; Feb80-10 SMITH:KAY NOLTE; 68/Oct/6; 69/Apr/7; 69/Jul/9; 69/Dec/9; 70/Feb/10; 71/Mar/9; 71/Apr/10; 71/Jun/7 Social; ARL87; ARL89; ARL123; ARL291; ARL301; Jun84-11; Oct85-5 Social Contract; 69/Aug/7 Socialism; 62/Dec/53 Social Metaphysics; 62/Nov/47; 64/Jul/27; 65/Feb/5; 67/Oct/1 Sorokun:Andrey; Oct86-1 South Pole; Apr87-10 Spassky; ARL111 Spillane (Day of the Guns); 64/Oct/43 Spillane (Girl Hunters); 62/Oct/42 Sports; Aug83-8 ST.JOHN:JEFFREY; 67/Jun/10 Stolen Concept; 63/Jan/2; Dec86-7 Student Rebellion, Berkeley; 65/Jul/27 Student violence; 69/Mar/1; 69/Aug/3 Supreme Court; ARL229 SURES:MARY ANN; 69/Feb/10 Surface Ideology; Oct85-8 Sutton (Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development); 70/Jan/9 Taiwan; ARL61; ARL65 Tax credits for education; ARL52 Tea Party (drama); 69/Jul/11 Teaching; ARL285; ARL292; ARL337; Oct85-7 Telepathy; Aug84-7 Television; 69/Oct/8; 70/Mar/11 Terrorism; Oct81-8 Thales; Aug84-7 The Oscar (movie); 66/Sep/12 The Simplest Thing in the World; 67/Nov/1 Theater; 68/Oct/6 Theory of Types; Feb84-13 Theory; ARL286 To Whom It May Concern; 68/May/1 Toledano (The Greatest Plot in History); 64/May/18 Tony Rome (movie); 68/Jan/8 Tribalism; ARL200; ARL205 True Grit (movie); 69/Dec/9 Truth; ARL286 Two Thousand and One (movie); 69/Jun/14 Universities; ARL79 Unknowable; 63/Jan/3 Untouchables; 62/Aug/36 Verbal proficiency; ARL115 Volition; 66/Jan/7; 66/Mar/8 Volitional Consciousness; 64/Apr/15 Von Mises (Anti-Capitalistic Mentality); 62/May/18 Von Mises (Omnipotent Government); 70/Aug/11 Von Mises (Planned Chaos); 62/Jan/2 Von Mises (Planning for Freedom); 62/Sep/38 Wage-price freeze; ARL5 WALSH:GEORGE; 70/Sep/7 War; 66/Jun/1; ARL361 Watergate; ARL187; ARL202; ARL209 We Bombed in New Haven (drama); 69/Jul/9 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie); 66/Sep/14 Windelband (A History of Philosophy); 64/Sep/36 Woman President; 68/Dec/1 Woodstock; 70/Jan/1 Wright:Frank Lloyd; Dec83-4 Wuthering Heights (movie); 71/Jun/8 Yeager and Janos (Yeager:An Autobiography); Apr86-12 ****** THINK ****** T#1 Introduction to thinking. Why a science of thinking is necessary. The myth that everyone "just knows" how to think. Prevalent manifestations of the failure to think efficiently. Consequences of faulty thinking methods. The relation between efficient thinking and intelligence. Problems in retraining methods of thinking. The philosophical presuppositions of efficient thinking. T#2 Focusing and problem-solving. The nature of intellectual focusing. The various levels of inadequate mental focus. Perception without conceptualization. Perception without judgment. Selective focusing. The failure to do new thinking. The state of full mental clarity. The motives and the consequences of the failure to focus mentally. The role of purpose, specificity and question-asking in problem-solving. T#3 The automatic functions of the mind. The nature of the subconscious. The subconscious as a Univac. Cognitive and evaluative functions of the subconscious. The proper use of the subconscious. Common failures to use the subconscious properly. Subconscious integrations and the emotions. Creative thinking and the subconscious. The psychology of inspiration. T#4 The conceptual level of consciousness. The nature of the conceptual level of consciousness. Concepts as the microfulm of the mind. The nature of intelligence. Thinking in principles. Thinking in essentials. Concrete-bound thinking. Counterfeit thinking in principles: the use of floating abstractions. T#5 The conceptual level of consciousness. The socialized consciousness and the destruction of language. The importance of knowing the source and validation of one's concepts. The role of integration in thinking. Evasion as the sabotaging of consciousness. Context-holding and integration. The subconscious as the holder of context. T#6 Emotions as tools of cognition. The manner in which wishes and fears can distort the thinking process. Emotional-perceptual thinking; its nature, causes, mechanism and consequences. Methods of correcting emotional-perceptual thinking. T#7 Language and definitions. Language as the tool of thought. The substitution of images and emotions for language. Non-verbal and sub-verbal thought. The dangers of equivocation in thinking. The nature and importance of exact definitions. Basic principles of definitions. The objectivity of language. T#8 Common aberrations in thinking and consequent mental habits. The fallacy of equating an abstraction with a concrete. Holding absolutes not open to re-examination. Failures of discrimination in thinking. Intellectual package-dealing. Thinking in a square. Psycho-epistemological Platonism. The misuse of analogy. T#9 The fallacy of the Stolen Concept. The meaning of the stolen concept. Analysis and refutation of common examples of the fallacy: "All property is theft";"I think, therefore I am"; "Who created the unvierse?"; "The acceptance of reason is an act of faith"; "The axioms of logic are arbitrary"; "How do you know that you exist?" The reasons for the prevalence of the fallacy. T#10 Psychological causes of inefficient thinking. The surrender of the will to efficacy. Failure of self-esteem. The malevolent universe premise. Social metaphysics. Emotional repression. The source and conditions of intellectual certainty. ******* BASIC ****** B#1 The role of philosophy. What is philosophy? The historicl role of reason. The bankruptcy of today's culture. Objectivism vs subjectivism. B#2 What is reason? The process of abstractionn and concept-formation. The subconscious. Reason and emotions. B#3 Logic and mysticism. Identity and causality. The validity of the senses. Reason vs mysticism. B#4 The concept of God. Is the concept meaningful? Are the arguments for the existence of God logically defensible? The destructiveness of the concept of God. B#5 Free will. The meaning and nature of volition. The fallacy of psychological determinism. Free will as the choice to think or not to think. B#6 Efficient thinking. The nature of clear thinking. Pseudo-thinking. The nature of definitions. Common thinking errors. B#7 Self-esteem. Why self-esteem is man's deepest psychological need. The consequences of the failure to achieve self-esteem. B#8 The psychology of dependence. The independent mind vs the socialized mind. Social metaphysics. The revolt against the responsibility of a volitional consciousness. B#9 The Objectivist ethics. Foundation of the Objectivist ethics. Man's life as the standard of value. Rationality as the foremost virtue. Happiness as the moral goal of life. B#10 Reason and virtue. Independence, honesty, integrity, productiveness. Their relation to survival and mental health. B#11 Justice vs mercy. The nature of justice. The importance of passing moral judgments. The virtue of pride. B#12 The evil of self-sacrifice. The ethics of altruism. Altruism as anti- man and anti-life. B#13 Government and the individual. The principles of a proper political system. Individual rights. Freedom vs compulsion. B#14 The economics of a free society. Basic principles of exchange. Division of labor. The mechanism of a free market. Profits and wealth. The pyramid of ability. B#15 Common fallacies about captalism. Monopolies, depressions, labor unions, inherited wealth. B#16 The psychology of sex. A person's sexual choices as the expression of his deepest values. Sex and self-esteem. B#17 Romanticism, naturalism and the novels of Ayn Rand. Naturalism and fatalism. Romanticism and free will. The literary method of Ayn Rand. B#18 Romanticism, naturalism and the novels of Ayn Rand. B#19 The nature of evil. Why evil is impotent. What makes the "victory" of evil possible. The sanction of the victim. B#20 The benevolent sense of life. Why many human beings repress and drive underground, not the worst within them, but the best. A benevolent vs malevolent sense of life. ******* PSYCHOLOGY OF ROMANTIC LOVE ****** L#1 "Love" in primitive societies. The Greek and Roman view. The Christian attack on sexuality. Individualism, capitalism and the birth of romantic love. L#2 The nature of love. The attacks on romantic love by psychologists. The crisis in marriage. Psychological visibility. Love as self discovery. L#3 Healthy love vs neurotic love. The psychological preconditions of being able to love. Distinguishing healthy from neurotic love. L#4 Love and sex. The meaning of pleasure. The psychological meaning of the sexual experience. L#5 Misconceptions about masculinity and femininity. Common fallacies about the nature of man and woman. The Freudian view. The conspiracy against woman. L#6 The meaning of masculinity and femininity. The psychological consequences and expression of man and woman's biological differences. The criteria of authentic masculinity and femininity. L#7 The challenge of masculinity and femininity. The biological basis of male and female sex roles. Aggressiveness and passivity in man and woman. L#8 Fear of masculinity and femininity. Selfishness and healthy sexuality. Fear of one's sexual role. Problems of a superior man or woman. The revolt against masculinity and femininity. L#9 The goals of a romantic relationship. The characteristics of a good romantic relationship. Communicating psychological visibility. L#10 The failure to project psychological visibility. Why romance so often vanishes. The importance of thought and effort to sustain a relationship. The importance of leisure. L#11 Emotional repression. The nature and causes of repression. The symptoms of repression in a romantic relationship. L#12 Dealing with emotional repression in marriage. Repression and communication. Repression and sexual problems. Breaking through repressive blocks. L#13 Communicating dissatisfactions. Constructive complaining. Defensiveness. The harmful effects of repressing grievances. L#14 The nature of sexual interaction. The importance of selfishness in sex. The importance of understanding oneself sexually. Homosexuality. L#15 Problems in the area of sex. Impotence and premature ejaculation. The non-orgasmic woman. Common misconceptions concerning sex. L#16 The concept of marriage. Unrealistic expectations concerning marriage. The problem of infidelity. Is romantic love for everyone? ******* FORD HALL FORUM ******** 14Nov71 6-1-168 (Rand's speech was ARL Vol1 #2 and #3) R.A. Childs' essay Comprachicos - why stay in school free will fedgov to pay taxes to local Government capital punishment should groups do what individuals shouldnt do homosexuality ethics - saints Objectivism - Randism is Objectivist Government possible - no, must be lengthy changeover 1972 elections - endorsement of Nixon libertarians application of Objectivism to foundations of math businessman's defiance of fedgov expose of pentagon papers why do you still hold hope for the country - sense of life new constitution foreign policy - what is it abortion - define human being - starts at birth gun control - not important issue - no threat comprachicos - advice to parents - Montessori new novel? cancel subscriptions major work on epistemology - favorite sculptor - did Venus de Milo or Michaelangelo - comprachicos - Montessori - public - how to cope - cause of hatred for capitalism - why is the male dominant? try to figure it out - rebuilding of America - start with philosophy 1972 7-1-155 Nixon McGovern campaign - proudest achievement - what is a sanction - why is taxation bad - altruism - Veatch - importance of political involvement - must vote but phil. education most important - libertarians - Hospers - Nixon not a power-luster - Ideal & Think Twice - Film of AS - chess - film AS - new book - free will - amnesty for draft dodgers - they must willingly accept prison - justify non-Government in AS - Declaration of Independence - common law - nuclear weapons - there are no innocent people in war - what about the untalented masses - no such thing - if so they deserve no interest - William Buckley *** Institute for Objectivist Studies IOS Journal *** IOS-May93 - environmentalism achievement power prestige enjoyment virtue ********** ATLAS SHRUGGED ************ Total elapsed time of the story is 3 years 5+ months All page numbers are in the hardback edition Who is John Galt? 153 178 517 the tramp's story 660 5 Eddie Willers Oak tree 7 James Taggart 12 Pop Harper's typewriter 31 Rearden's motivator 61 cigarettes 74 Anti-dog-eat-dog Rule 90 Francisco 146 FA thanks HR 155 Bracelet 287 finding the motor 313 I have never made a profit 320 dialectical materialism 952 323 the Starnes plan 324 William Hastings 328 Dagny meets Hugh Akston 358 mediocrity 410 money is the root of all evil 436 Government makes criminals 448 look here, Reardon 455 to shrug 464 sanction of the victim 479 476 Rearden's trial 489 Francisco on sex 497 for want of a nail 534 536 bastards stand still 538 10-289 548 the guiltless man 573 Hank meets Ragnar 579 death & taxes vs life & production 702 crash the gate 760 marriage 785 being a mother 786 Part 3 Chapter 2 Galt's question 811 irrevocable decision 859 consequence of a lie 1019 907 Cherryl's end 919 Anconia copper nationalized 989 Tony's end 994 comprachicos 1009 Galt's speech 1025 original sin 1044 origin of mysticism 1048 exploitation 1064 1066 Galt's call to Shrug 1076 There's no such thing, said Mr Thompson 1090 Galt's garret 1092 1103 how will your gun make me do that? 1104 why don't vote 1126 the xylophone 1167 Aristotle *** THE FOUNTAINHEAD *** From CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: "They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountainhead." These notes are from Sep92. I had not read the book for many years and came away from it with an attitude different from any I have held in the past. I now find Dominique to be the most contemptible fictional character I have ever encountered. It is sad to see a character such as Keating, who has only a rare spark of decency - it is pitiful to see a character such as Catherine, who hasn't a shred of human stature (she is the truly selfless character) - it is frightful to see Toohey, who is a thoroughly vicious creature - but it is downright disgusting to see Dominique, who has the makings of a first-class person, but who deliberately chooses to deprave herself into a slut. I will probably never read the book again. It is a distressing experience. the real Toohey 242 274-5 287-8 307 663 665 vii Romanticism ix the goal of Rand's writing xi rationally justifiable spirituality 92 nudity 101-2 anarchy according to Austen Heller 114 the world will get what's coming to it 121 Roark meets Austen Heller 129 a motto carved over the entrance 131 the nature of celebration 132 the determining motive of a house 140 celebration 160 There was no such person as Mrs. Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the postcards she had seen, the novels she had read. 249 sacrilege 255 You're not the worst of the world. You're its best. That's what's frightening. 267 Always be what people want you to be. Then you've got them where you want them. 268 It was not a man to him, but only a force. 269 what she saw in his face, what made it the face of a god to her, was not seen by others. 270 the style of a soul 279 289 Dominique's philosophy of sex 287-8 Atlases 288 anyone for whom we can't feel sorry is a vicious person 291 Dominique's motive 315 the quality of a dream 317 loyalty to the best within themselves 319-20 committees 331 the Ambrosian view of love 337 heroic art 338 I am grateful for what you are 340 do you understand about the men who see genius and don't want it? 340 in a sealed cell with a brain-dead monster 341 a statue for the Stoddard Temple 343 365 the Stoddard Temple - exaltation 353 journalism 356 Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? 366 casting pearls with no pork chop 367 they won't say that they hate you. They will say that you hate them. 373 the social worker 374 Why is it that I set out honestly to do what I thought was right and it's making me rotten? 375 altruism 388 To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.' 401 But I don't think of you. 421 Go buy yourself a screw. 421 Maggy Kelly 422 every piece of swill I write 423 the foundation of the Banner 424 definition of news 440 you have to flatter people you despise in order to impress other people who despise you 443 self-respect can't be killed 463 the New York skyline 464 518 human smallness vs the size of nature 470 human change (growth) 489 490 value depravation 511 to destroy the capacity for the sublime 512 the devil is many and smutty and small 528 show me your achievement - and the knowledge will give me courage for mine. 527-30 the boy on a bicycle 545 openness 553 the difference between Wynand and Roark 564 the ownership in admiration 569 Wynand's kitten 575 the foundation of purpose 581 If everybody were compelled to have the proper kind of education, we'd have a better world. If we force people to do good, they will be free to be happy. 589 He felt something dark and leering in the manner with which people spoke of Prescott's genius; as if they were not doing homage to Prescott, but spitting upon genius. 596 You can devote your life to pulling out each single weed as it comes up - and then ten lifetimes won't be enough for the job. Or you can prepare your soil in such a manner that it will be impossible for weeds to grow. 599 It's not surprising that you have slipped from the top - because there was never any reason why you should have been at the top. 603 To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. To keep your soul is much harder. 604 Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. 605 a cause of homelessness 605 how can he be so sure that the plan adopted will be his own. And if it is, what right has he to impose it on the others? And if it isn't, what happens to his work? 609 pity 626 the sin is that I hadn't done what I wanted 626 the responsibility of desires 627 It's not an act - one can't put on an act like that - unless it's an act inside, for oneself, and then there is no limit, no way out, no reality. 632 What else can one do if one must serve the people? If one must live for others? Either pander to everybody's wishes and be called corrupt; or impose on everybody by force your own idea of everybody's good. 633 selflessness the second-hand soul 635 the independent man kills them - because they don't exist within him and that's the only form of existence they know. 635 We haven't even got a word for the quality I mean - for the self- sufficiency of man's spirit. 640 They didn't do it on purpose. That's what makes it worse. 654 Hell is paved with good intentions. Could it be because you have never learned to distinguish what intentions constitute the good? Never have there been so many good intentions so loudly proclaimed in the world. And look at it. 669 collectivism 673 711 fountainhead 709 hates those who robbed him of his courage 711 the collective mind 713 the nature of altruism