Word: objectivist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discussion before a crowd of more than 400 at an Institute of Politics Forum quickly turned into a debate over the legitimacy of the Objectivist conception of selfishness as an ideal guide for human behavior...
...which people act only to further their own private interests. Greenspan, who was a friend of Rand's until her death in 1982, credits the writer with teaching him that "capitalism is not only practical and efficient but also moral." During the 1960s, as a contributor to the Objectivist, Rand's monthly journal, Greenspan expounded some extreme economic views. "The welfare state," Greenspan wrote, "is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of society...
Peter Schwartz, publisher of the leading objectivist journal, The Intellectual Activist, said Reagan's current defense policy amounts to nuclear reduction through negotiation and "is the most immoral doctrine we could adopt...
...argument is based on objectivism, which holds that man is the supreme end, man's own happiness is the moral purpose of his life, and harmony will be reached through each individual's struggle for economic success, said Linda Reardan, a graduate student of philosophy and member of the Objectivist Club...
...Objectivist Club, which began last spring, sponsored Schwartz's speech and will present a speech on the root of terrorism in two weeks by Northrop Beuchen, Professor of Economics at St. John's University...