Leonard Peikoff
Leonard Peikoff
Leonard Sylvan Peikoff is a Canadian-American philosopher. A former professor of philosophy, he was designated by the philosopher Ayn Rand as heir to her estate. He is an author, a leading advocate of Objectivism, and the founder of the Ayn Rand Institute. For several years, he hosted a nationally syndicated radio talk show...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 October 1933
CountryCanada
children hypocrisy cuba
To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.
grasp life needs rights son talk watch
If you grasp what totalitarianism is, you would never talk about the rights of the father. In that kind of society, he can only watch his son die. You say he needs a father; he needs a life first.
iran oil trying
Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.
running mean government
Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state res...erves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.
opponents should
The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.
mother men order
What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?
art reality self
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.
clear ifs knows
The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.
war mean government
Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.
atheist mean reality
Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.
men relevant evidence
Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.
thinking world save-the-world
To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.
men ideas majority
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.