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What is the root of Ayn Rand's Objectivism? I mean, what philosophical movement/school? If there's any. Thanks

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I think she would say her ideas are a direct connection back to Aristotle. She believed that modern philosophy, for the most part, has been VERY destructive.

I believe it's unfair to her to say that in her work is a Nietzsche and/or existentialism influence. This is because it's possible to make that claim across a wide strata of ideas because of the expanse of ground claimed by those two idealogies.

Hated:
Hume
Kant
Hegel
Rouseau
Nietzsche
Marx
Existentialism

Liked:
Aristotle
Locke
And maybe an affectionate pat on the head for American pragmatism.

But mostly she liked her own ideas, which she called Objectivism. Her best non-fiction work is, "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology."

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