Lexicon Index
A
Acting: see Performing Arts
Associations: see Cooperation
Awareness: see Consciousness
B
Blanking Out: see Evasion
C
Coercion: see Physical Force
Concretes: see Abstractions and Concretes
Confidence: see Courage and Confidence; Self–Esteem
“Conservatives” vs. “Liberals”
“Contingent Truth”: see Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy
Copyrights: see Patents and Copyrights
“Crow Epistemology”: see Unit-Economy
D
Deontological Theory of Ethics: see “Duty”
Distinguishing Characteristic: see Concept-Formation
E
Ecology/Environmental Movement
Economic Power vs. Political Power
Egoism: see Selfishness
End in Itself: see Ultimate Value
Environmentalism: see Ecology/Environmental Movement
Equality: see Egalitarianism
Errors of Knowledge vs. Breaches of Morality
Essence/Essential Characteristic: see Definitions
Ethics: see Morality
F
G
H
Hatred of the Good for Being the Good: see Envy/Hatred of the Good for Being Good
I
J
Judgment: see Moral Judgment
K
L
Law, Objective and Non-Objective
Leftists: see Rightists vs. Leftists
M
Military Conscription: see Draft
Mind-Body Dichotomy: see Soul-Body Dichotomy
N
Nazism: see Fascism/Nazism
Non-Contradiction: see Contradictions
O
Objective: see Objectivity
Obligation: see Responsibility/Obligation
P
Parts of Speech: see Grammar
Political Power: see Economic Power vs. Political Power
Primacy of Existence vs. Primacy of Consciousness
Prior Certainty of Consciousness
Q
R
Reality: see Existence
Reification of the Zero: see Zero, Reification of
Right to Life: see Life, Right to
Rights: see Individual Rights
S
Self-Sacrifice: see Altrusim ; Sacrifice ; Selflessness
Singing: see Performing Arts
Standard of Measurement: see Measurement
T
Teleology: see Goal-Directed Action
U
V
W
X
Xenophobia: see Anti-Conceptual Mentality
Y
Z
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Excerpts from The Ominous Parallels, by Leonard Peikoff. Copyright © 1982 by Leonard Peikoff. Reprinted with permission of Stein and Day Publishers. Excerpts from The Romantic Manifesto, by Ayn Rand. Copyright © 1971, by The Objectivist. Reprinted with permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Excerpts from Atlas Shrugged, copyright © 1957 by Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, copyright © 1943 by Ayn Rand, and For the New Intellectual, copyright © 1961 by Ayn Rand. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Ayn Rand. Excerpts from Philosophy: Who Needs It, by Ayn Rand. Copyright © 1982 by Leonard Peikoff, Executor, Estate of Ayn Rand. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Ayn Rand. Excerpts from “The Philosophy of Objectivism” lecture series. Copyright © 1976 by Leonard Peikoff. Reprinted by permission. Excerpts from Alvin Toffler’s interview with Ayn Rand, which first appeared in Playboy magazine. Copyright © 1964. Reprinted by permission of Alvin Toffler. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Plume, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
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