Introducción a la epistemología objetivista

Concepts, the so-called "problem of universals", constitute the central theme of the history of philosophy. The validity of human knowledge depends on the validity of concepts, but concepts are abstractions or universals, while everything that the individual perceives is specific, subjective. When we refer to three people as "men", what do we designate by that term? What do these different singularities have in common so that we can include them under the same term? What is, in reality, what corresponds to the concept "man" in our mind? To answer all these questions, the writer and thinker Ayn Rand offers us in this volume an analysis of one of the cardinal elements of her philosophy: the objectivist theory of concepts. In an intellectual landscape dominated by postmodern philosophy, which maintains that reality is constructed through language and that language is nothing more than an arbitrary social convention, Rand sets out to demonstrate the validity and restore the epistemological dignity of universal conceptual knowledge. Solving this problem, apparently esoteric and inconsequential, is a crucial need for the destiny of societies, science and progress.