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The historical religion programs in this collection came from the archives, library shelves, and back rooms of many organizations. Faith groups represented include African Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker, Roman Catholic, Salvation Army, United Church of Christ, United Methodist, and others.
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The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Speaker(s): Ayn Rand, Del Shields (host)
Description: Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum in Russia and moved to the U.S. in 1926. She was a writer and philosopher known for her two best-selling novels, "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged." Rand developed a philosophical system she named Objectivism, which she says she had to develop because other philosophies were not consistent with her own beliefs and fictional writings. In this program, she begins by explaining Objectivism. Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism and rejected altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed collectivism and statism as well as anarchism, instead supporting laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system based on recognizing individual rights, including property rights. She answers the question of whether assassins Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, and Lee Harvey Oswald acted rationally. The Ayn Rand Institute of Santa Ana, California still teaches Objectivism on-campus and online.
Length: 59:05
Recording Date: March 12, 1969
Recorded at: WRVR Radio Studio, New York City