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Having just given full vent to my exasperation with Leonard Peikoff over the inadequacies of his book on Objectivism, I would like, in fairness, publicly to welcome the recent news from Laissez-Faire Books in San Francisco that Peikoff’s earlier work, The Ominous Parallels, is now available again. Since quarter of a century has elapsed since the heyday of the ‘Objectivist Movement’ it is worth noting some of the reasons for the latter reaction. Among students, she quickly acquired a wide following among their professors, she was usually either ignored or scornfully dismissed. For Rand the philosopher, however, reception was distinctly mixed. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged not only remain in print but sell upwards of 100,000 copies a year, over a dozen years after their author’s death. (A fuller statement arrived in 1957, with her novel Atlas Shrugged.)Īs a novelist, Rand achieved enduring success. In the less grandiose but nonetheless powerful world of publishing, another milestone was reached: the 50th anniversary of The Fountainhead, the novel which established Ayn Rand as a major literary figure and which contained the first statement–albeit in embryo–of her challenging philosophy, Objectivism. (New York: Dutton, 1991, cloth, 493p., ISBN 0-8)ĪD 1993 saw some notable anniversaries, from Queen Elizabeth’s fortieth as a powerless monarch to ‘Whitewater Bill’ Clinton’s first as the world’s most powerful elected official. I do not think I have ever come across a better book for beginners in any field than David Kelley’s The Art of Reasoning. Today, I am pleased to announce that help is at hand. But no introductory work I have seen has seemed appropriate for teenagers in the increasingly undemanding classrooms of the later 20th Century. Sinclair’s slimline classic The Traditional Formal Logic (1937) with, in between, plenty of good undergraduate level overviews such as those by Irving Copi or Lionel Ruby. Joseph’s weighty An Introduction to Logic (1916), to W.A. Many fine introductions to logic have indeed been written varying in density from H.W.B. One obvious difficulty with my panacea is that since logic has traditionally been seen as a university level subject, suitable high school textbooks don’t exist. This review, and the others below, were originally published in the UK by the magazine of the Libertarian Alliance Free Life.įor something like a quarter of a century I have maintained – and declaimed to listeners willing or unwilling – that most of the evils of mankind would be avoided if only logic were taught in high schools. NB: the Expanded Second Edition, 1995, soft cover, 595 pages, is not reviewed here. Norton, 1988 hard cover, 412 pages, ISBN 3-X)
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