Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (104 page)

Bulgakov, Serge,
28
,
33
,
36
,
40
,
43

Burns, Jennifer,
467n. 7

Capital
(Marx),
5
,
231–32
,
261
,
269

capitalism

action and,
155–56

anarchism and,
248
,
260–64
,
307

Atlas Shrugged
(Rand) and, 108

Austrian school theory and,
267
,
309–14

boom-bust cycle in,
313–14

collectivism and,
268–69
,
310–11

communism and,
337

consciousness and,
269
,
272
,
301–2

creativity and,
271–73

culture and,
265–66
,
273–74
,
337–38

dialectics and,
8
,
13
,
18–19
,
236
,
260–61
, 262, 263,
268–70
, 274

dualism and,
13
,
260–61
,
262
, 263,
268–70
,
274
, 335–37,
359–60

education and,
378

efficacy and,
269–70

epistemology and,
118

ethics and,
265–66
, 267, 323–24

exploitation and,
271

fascism and,
310–11

foreign aid and,
319–20

fragmentation and,
61
,
274
, 327–29

freedom and,
269
,
287

history and,
265–66
,
310–12
,
335–38

individualism and,
264
,
268–69
,
270

irrationality and,
273–74

language and, 296

libertarianism and,
248–49
,
260–74

Marxism and,
13
,
266

mind-body dichotomy and,
269

money and,
270–71
,
312–14

Objectivism and,
110–11
,
118
,
120
,
348–49
,
349–50

“The Only Path to Tomorrow” (Rand) and,
105

ontology and,
118

philosophy and,
349–50

power and,
301–2
,
311
,
312
,
314

productive work and,
268–73
,
282
, 307, 308–9

property and,
270

psycho-epistemology and,
312–13

racism and,
327–29
,
330

radicalism and,
266
,
274
,
279
,
350

rationalism and,
208

reason and,
155–56
,
261
,
268
,
271
,
336

reification and,
267–68

relations and,
282
,
286
, 287,
301–2

rights and,
256
,
264
,
270

Russian culture and,
23

selfishness and,
264–65

social theory and,
248–49
, 260–74,
307–14

society and,
267–68

statism and,
260–64
,
265
,
282
,
307–14
,
319–20
,
323–24
,
327–29
,
336
,
337–38

trade and, 269–70, 315

unintended consequences and, 210–11

values and,
273
,
307

welfare and,
314

Capitalism
(Rand),
110
,
111
,
264

Caputo, John,
212

causality

attributes and,
135–36

circularity and,
128

concepts and, 125,
132–33
,
133–34
,
135
,
137

consciousness and,
125
,
132

context and,
133

cosmology and,
133
,
139–40

entity and,
135

epistemology and,
124
, 132–33,
139–40

ethics and,
242
,
243

history and,
340–42

identity and,
132–33
,
133–34
,
135
,
137

Lossky and,
49
,
132

materialism and,
132

ontology and,
123
,
124
,
125
,
132–33
,
133–34
,
135
,
137
,
139–40

relations and,
135
,
242

science and,
123
,
124
,
132

volition and,
137

censorship,
70
, 86,
320
,
331
,
374
,
455n. 126

“A Challenge to
Russian Radical
-and Ayn Rand” (Sciabarra),
xii
,
393–400

Chambers, Whittaker,
108

character,
62–63
.
See also
personality

charity,
245–46
,
260

Chekov, Anton,
66

Chernyshevsky, Nicholas G.,
27

Chicherin, B. N.,
29
,
141–42

childhood,
177–82
,
184–85
,
347

Childs, Roy,
416n. 70
,
433n. 29
,
442n. 34
,
450n. 22
,
454n. 93

China,
320

Christianity,
25
,
30
,
32
,
76
,
77
,
92
,
131
, 375

circularity,
127–28
,
145
,
225
,
226
,
242

civilization,
32

Clinton, Hillary Rodham,
1

cognition.
See
consciousness

Collective,
402n. 8

collectivism

Anthem
(Rand) and,
104–5

capitalism and,
265–66
,
268–69
,
310–11

communism and,
106

dualism and,
354–55

ethics and,
219

fascism and,
310–11

force and,
253

The Fountainhead
(Rand) and,
102–4
,
106

humankind and,
250–51

individualism and,
73
,
250–51

Lossky and,
44

mysticism and,
251

“The Only Path to Tomorrow” (Rand) and,
105–6

ontology and,
133–34

organicism and,
250–51

racism and,
325

Russian philosophy and,
250–51

“Screen Guide for Americans” (Rand) and,
106

sobornost’
and,
251

social theory and,
250–51
,
268–69

statism and,
37–38
,
310–11

unity and,
37–38

Commissariat of Enlightenment,
69–71
, 74,
368
,
390

communism

capitalism and,
337

Christianity and,
92

collectivism and,
106

dualism and,
97
,
98

early writings on,
91–92

fact-value dichotomy and,
216

The Fountainhead
(Rand) and, 103–4

House Un-American Activities Committee and,
88–89

humankind and,
350–52

individualism and,
98

religion and,
92
,
97

“Screen Guide for Americans” (Rand) and,
88
,
106

sobornost’
and,
98

statism and,
308

totalitarianism and, 88–89,
94

in
We the Living
(Rand),
37–38
,
91
,
93–98

community,
23–24
,
25
, 26–27,
355–58
.
See also
society

composition, fallacy of,
250
,
441n. 7

“The Comprachicos” (Rand),
177

Comte, Auguste,
421n. 9

conceit,
232–33

concentration camps,
287–89

conception

abstraction and,
157–61

action and,
170–71

art and,
191–93
,
195–97

Atlas Shrugged
(Rand) and,
196

attributes and,
157

awareness and,
156–61
,
170–73

consciousness and,
149
,
152
,
156–57
,
170–73
,
180–81
,
189–91

context and,
172

creativity and,
170–71

culture and,
302–6

differentiation and,
157
,
160–61

education and,
302–6

emotions and,
170–73

empiricism and,
205–6

epistemology and,
150
,
152
,
156–61
,
170–73
,
189–91

ethics and,
224
,
227

existents and,
157

focus and,
156–57

identity and,
157

integration and,
156–57
,
159–61

irrationality and,
302–6

literature and,
192–93
,
195–97

mathematics and, 159,
160–61

measurement and,
160–61
,
189

objectivism and,
161

Objectivism and,
189–91
,
347

omniscience and,
158

perception and,
150
,
152
,
156–57
,
161
,
171–72

racism and,
325–27

radicalism and,
159–60

reason and,
156–57
,
170–73

reification and,
159

relations and,
156–61
,
173

sensation and,
150
,
152
,
156–57

sense of life and,
180–81

social theory and,
302–6

statism and,
323

subjectivism and,
161

units in,
157
,
158–59

volition and,
156–57
,
161

concepts.
See also
causality; conception; existence; ideas; identity

abstraction and,
162

anti-concepts,
294–96
, 297,
300
,
304
, 305,
316
,
323
,
325
,
326
,
327

art and,
191–93

attributes and,
135–36

causality and, 125,
132–33
,
133–34
,
135
,
137

circularity and,
127–28

context and,
131
,
133
,
136–37
,
163–66

definitions and,
162–66

differentiation and,
162–63

dualism and,
125

empiricism and,
204–8

entity and,
132
,
161–66

epistemology and,
123
,
124–33
,
158–59
,
160–61
,
161–66

ethics and,
227

existents and,
165

government as,
264

integration and,
161–66

intrinsicism and,
162–66

language and,
278
,
293–96
,
427n. 44

logic and,
126–30

Marxism and,
126

monism and,
131–32

objectivism and,
165–66

Objectivism and,
138

ontology and,
123
,
124–33
,
138–39
,
161–63
, 165–66

philosophy and,
123

power and,
278
,
293–96

rationalism and,
131
,
204–8

realism and,
144

relations and,
125
,
128
,
134–37
,
161–66
,
278
,
293–96

science and,
123

senses as,
132

stolen concept, fallacy of,
126
,
127–28
,
131
,
225

subjectivism and,
162–66

units and,
162–63

volition as, 132

conceptualism,
146

consciousness

abstraction and,
157–61
,
178
,
196–97
,
213

action and,
149
,
170–71
,
198
,
200–201
,
214
,
240
,
253–54
,
340

art and,
181
,
191–93
,
196–97
,
238

articulation and,
197–201
,
240

awareness and,
149–54
,
154–55
,
170–73
,
177–82
,
184–85

capitalism and,
269
,
272
,
301–2

causality and, 125,
132

childhood,
184–85

childhood and,
177–82

concentration camps and,
288