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The Objectivist Movement
The Atlas Society was founded by David Kelley as The Institute for Objectivist Studies in 1990. In his statement at the Institute's founding (since published in The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand), David Kelley called for an open, intellectually tolerant Objectivist movement characterized by a benevolent and rational sense of life. Today, The Atlas Society stands at the heart of this branch of the movement.
Not all Objectivists and admirers of Ayn Rand have agreed with Dr. Kelley's vision, and the Objectivist movement continues to be divided against itself by intense and often personal differences and debates.
In this section of our website, we provide resources that explain the open, benevolent approach to Objectivism and provide responses to criticisms directed at our program and work.
Resources
- The Founding of the Atlas Society
- VIDEO: David Kelley on the Objectivist Movement
- VIDEO: Truth and Toleration Twenty Years Later
- A Note to Our Members About Open Objectivism
- Introduction to The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism, by David Kelley
- "Objectivism," Chapter 5 of the book The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand
- The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand, full text of book
- Better Things to Do
- The Atlas Society vs. the Ayn Rand Institute: A Question of Objectivity and Independence
- Rage and Objectivism
- The Anatomy of Cooperation
