Filosofía

Philosophy is not a pastime for taciturn teenagers or for intellectuals who live in their ivory tower. It is a discipline that addresses the most important issues in human life. What do we want the world we live in to be like? How can we distinguish knowledge from deception? What is good and what is bad? In these unpublished essays in Spanish, which Ayn Rand wrote in the years after the publication of The Atlas Rebellion, the novelist and philosopher faced the root of some of her main concerns: the power to change things, the distinction between selfishness rational and capricious ego, censorship or distinction between the natural world and man-made achievements. In Philosophy: Who Needs It, Rand shows how abstract ideas have profound consequences in real life and examines some issues that remain highly topical: the relationship between egalitarianism and inflation, between collectivism and the regulation of pornography or the alcohol consumption, or the problem of free will versus determinism.