Whew! Too long, isn't it? In my own words and based on these three novels of her that I've so far read, what she espoused was that an individual works best alone. Atlas Shrugged and the real version of this book, Anthem are now both brittle and yellowed since it has been 30 years ago since I bought them brand new.Īnyway, reading Anthem reminded me of course about Rand's philosophy called Objectivism whose central tenets are that reality exists independent of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (or rational self-interest), that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez faire capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form-a work of art-that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally. However, I only managed to read another one, The Fountainhead. However, to impress her (I was a grade-conscious student), I bought all her books and thought of finishing all those during the trimester. I checked all the books and settled for Rand's first novel We the Living. When I was in college, my World Literature professor's favorite novelist was Ayn Rand (1905-1982) and so she required us to read a book by Rand as part of the midterm requirements. This is my third Ayn Rand but first in graphics.

When I saw this book at my favorite bargain bookstore, I said wow, Ayn Rand in graphics.

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