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Reconsidering Ayn Rand

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Summary

Full Title: Reconsidering Ayn Rand Author(s): Michael B. Yang Year Published: 2000 Publisher: Winepress Publishing Publication Type: Self/Vanity ISBN-10: 1-57921-255-7 (hardcover), 1-57921-218-2 (paperback) ISBN-13: Description: A Christian in the mold of John W. Robbins (whom he references frequently and thanks for offering comments on a draft of his book), Yang offers his own refutation of Objectivism with Christianity as the preferred alternative.

Contents

• Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Part One: The Fiction and the Practice

2. Establishing the Foundations: A Synopsis of Rand's Two Major Novels
   • The Fountainhead
   • Atlas Shrugged
3. Self-Esteem, Confidence, and Human Worth
   • Altruism and Christianity: The Missing Link
   • The History of Altruism
   • The Psychology of Altruism
   • An Unconventional Christian
   • A Crack in the Edifice
   • A Mistaken Interpretation
   • The Source of Human Value: A Contrast in Views
   • A Remaining Question
4. The Code of Competence
   • Productive Work as Central Purpose
   • The Spiritual versus the Material
5. Romantic Love: Objectivism and Christianity
   • The Drama of Love
   • The Psychology of Romantic Love
   • A Turning
   • Hostility toward Physical Existence and Life
   • Christianity and Sexual Love
   • What Did Paul Say?
   • Woman: Domesticated Animal or Fellow Heir of Life?
   • Full Integration and the Unity of Love
6. In Pursuit of Objectivist Love
   • The Romantic Life of Dagny Taggart
   • Sobering Thoughts
   • The Pursuit of the Highest Type
   • Objectivists in Pursuit of Objectivist Love
   • Personal Cost
   • Further Consequences
   • Redeeming Love

Part Two: The Philosophy

7. A Survey of Objectivism
   • Metaphysics
   • Epistemology
   • Ethics
   • Politics
8. Reason and Reality
   • Axioms: A Preliminary Consideration
   • Preliminary Questions about Existence and Consciousness
   • Objectivist Epistemology
   • The Validity of the Senses
   • The Stages of Sonsciousness
   • Concept Formation
   • Truth, Contextual Absolutes, and Open-Ended Concepts
   • The Problem of Individualism
   • Hume
   • Metaphysics
   • Materialist Implications for Volitional Consciousness
   • Materialist Implications for Truth
   • Reconsidering Axioms
   • A Christian Construction
9. Morality and Government
   • Moral Absolutes
   • Failure of Materialism to Arrive at Truth
   • Failure of Empirical Ethics
   • The Objectivist Ethics: The Basic Choice
   • Life and Death: The Alternative
   • Life as Ultimate Value
   • Deriving the Ought from the Is
   • What Is Man?
   • Longevity or Quality of Life
   • The Predator and the Prey
   • Planning for a Lifetime
   • Sensations and Emotions: Pleasure and Happiness
   • Purpose and Standards
   • Summary
   • Politics
   • Individual Rights: Source and Definition
   • Rights: Inalienable or Conditioned?
   • Inalienable Rights: Implications
   • Inalienable Rights: The Derivation of Government
   • Inalienable Rights: How They Are Lost
   • Recapitulation
   • A Christian Construction
10. Science and Christianity
    • Preliminary Problems
    • The Problem of Measurement and the Philosophy of Science
    • The Success of Science versus the Truth of Science
    • Christianity and Rise of Modern Science
    • Galileo versus Aristotle
    • The Laws of Thermodynamics
    • Creation and Evolution
    • The Creation Event
    • The Six Days of Creation
    • Evolution
    • Natural Selection
    • Prebiotic Soup and Probabilities
    • Human Ancestors
    • Conclusion
11. Bridging the Chasm
    • Antitheism: The Universal Negative
    • The Ontological Argument
    • The Cosmological Argument
    • The Contingency Argument
    • The Design or Teleological Argument
    • Prophecy as Design

12. Epilogue: In the Name of the Best within Us

• Bibliography
• Index

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