[Ayn Rand] Objectivism is a philosophical system that originated as the personal philosophy of American writer Ayn Rand (1905–1982). First developed in her novels and polemic essays, it was later given more formal structure by her designated intellectual heir, philosopher Leonard Peikoff, who characterizes it as a `closed system` that is ...
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doctrine that all reality is objective
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(from the article `Rand, Ayn`) Russian-born American writer who, in commercially successful novels, presented her philosophy of objectivism, essentially reversing the traditional ... ...it is opposed to any doctrine that sees in man some given and complete reality that must be resolved into its elements in order to be known or ... [2...
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the theory or practice of objective art or literature. The term was used by the poet William Carlos Williams in the 1930s to describe a movement in ... [4 related articles]
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Loose association of US poets such as Ezra
Pound, Louis
Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, Charles Reznikoff (1894-...
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Objectivism is a loose association of American poets such as Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams, Charles Reznikoff, and George Oppen, whose major works were all lifelong open-ended enterprises, constantly updated. Poetry was seen by them as a process by which the poetic form begins with a particular object and then moves on by impr...
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in ethics, the belief that certain acts are objectively right or wrong.
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Realism (q.v.). Objective Idealism (q.v.). Logic, Aesthetics, Ethics: The view that the mind possesses objects, norms, or meanings of universal validity. The opposite of subjectivism, psychologism, solipsism, individualism (q.v.). -- W.L.
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