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Eyal Mozes

The Relationship Between the Philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ayn Rand

The Relationship Between the Philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ayn Rand

By Eyal Mozes
Categories: Commentary

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled "Nietzsche and Objectivism."

Stephen Hicks suggests three questions regarding the relationship of the philosophies of Ayn Rand and Nietzsche:

1. To what extent do Rand and Nietzsche agree, and how fundamental are these agreements?

2. To what extent was Rand (specifically, the mature Rand) influenced by Nietzsche?

Response by Eyal Mozes

Response by Eyal Mozes

By Eyal Mozes
Categories: Commentary

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled "Nietzsche and Objectivism."

I agree with most of D.J. Glombowski’s essay. In this commentary, I raise two questions on the issues he discusses.

Response by Eyal Mozes

Response by Eyal Mozes

By Eyal Mozes
Categories: Commentary

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled "Nietzsche and Objectivism."

Response by Eyal Mozes

Response by Eyal Mozes

By Eyal Mozes
Categories: Commentary

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 2000 online "CyberSeminar" entitled "Nietzsche and Objectivism." 

Looking at Stephen Hicks’s thorough table of agreements/disagreements between Nietzsche and Ayn Rand, I am puzzled by two of the three agreements Stephen finds on sense-of-life issues.

Response by Eyal Mozes

Response by Eyal Mozes

By Eyal Mozes
Categories: Commentary

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 1999 online "CyberSeminar" entitled "The Continental Origins of Postmodernism."

Response by Eyal Mozes and Others

Response by Eyal Mozes and Others

By Eyal Mozes
Categories: Commentary

This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 1999 online "CyberSeminar" entitled "The Continental Origins of Postmodernism."

Is-Ought Dichotomy

Is-Ought Dichotomy

By Eyal Mozes
Categories: Objectivism

Question: I found the following text in an article by Patrick O'Neil (Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 7, no. 1) and would like to know your answer to it. 

Existence, Time, and the Big Bang

Existence, Time, and the Big Bang

By Eyal Mozes
Categories: Objectivism

Question: The Big Bang theory, which is widely accepted, indicates that existence did emerge from non-existence. But why do Objectivists hold that existence is forever?

Answer: There are four points that need to be made in response to your question.

Environmental Protection and Objectivism

Environmental Protection and Objectivism

By Eyal Mozes
Categories: Objectivism

Question: I am just beginning to learn about Objectivism, but I have yet to hear anything about how Objectivists would address the multifarious environmental issues that plague this world today, including environmental cleanup from industry and preservation of ecologically rich environments for the sake of species diversity.

What is Productive Achievement?

What is Productive Achievement?

By Eyal Mozes
Categories: Objectivism

Question: Ayn Rand says man's noblest activity is "productive achievement." What is productive achievement? Someone said: "the application of reason to the problem of existence."