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Ayn Rand (, Ayn rhyming with fine; – March 6 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum (), was a Russian-born Jewish-American author best known for developing the philosophy of Objectivism and for writing the novels The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, We the Living, and Anthem.
Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, the concepts of reason, individualism, rational egoism ("rational self-interest"), and laissez-faire capitalism. She believed that people must choose their values and actions by reason; that the individual has a right to exist for his or her own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and that no one has the right to take what belongs to others by physical force or fraud, or impose their moral code on others by physical force. Her politics have been described as minarchism and libertarianism, though she never used the first term and detested the second. at the Ayn Rand Institute. Rand stated in 1980, "I’ve read nothing by a Libertarian...that wasn’t my ideas badly mishandled—i.e., had the teeth pulled out of them—with no credit given."
The express goal of Rand's fiction was to showcase the idealized Randian hero, Lewis, John. The Literary Encyclopedia 20 October 2001. a man whose ability and independence causes conflict with society, but who nevertheless perseveres to achieve his goals.
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