Ayn Rand
by ebrary, Inc, Gladstein, Mimi Reisel
fromMajor conservative and libertarian thinkers
The novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was one of the most influential 20th century advocates of free market capitalism. Her work inspired Objectivism, a philosophical movement and former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cited Rand as a formative intellectual influence.…
Ayn Rand
by ProQuest (Firm), Gladstein, Mimi Reisel
fromMajor conservative and libertarian thinkers
The novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was one of the most influential 20th century advocates of free market capitalism. Her work inspired Objectivism, a philosophical movement and former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cited Rand as a formative intellectual influence.…
Harry Potter and philosophy: if Aristotle ran Hogwarts
by Matthews, Gareth B., Morris, Tom, Eberl, Jason T., Baggett, David, Bassham, Gregory, Walls, Jerry L., Thorsrud, Harald, Klein, Shawn E., Gladstein, Mimi Reisel, Hsieh, Diana Mertz, Lipscomb, Benjamin J. Bruxvoort, Stewart, W. Christopher, Patterson, Steven W., Deavel, David, Deavel, Catherine, Weed, Jennifer Hart, Silberstein, Michael
fromPopular culture and philosophy
In Harry Potter and Philosophy, individual chapters look at such topics as life revealed in the Mirror of Erised; the ethics of magic; Moaning Myrtle, Nearly Headless Nick, and the relation of the mind to the brain; and the character of Hermione as a case of "sublimated feminism…