Study Questions: "Faith and Force"

1. Have you read, heard of, or met any intellectuals with ideas like the "modern relativists" Rand describes on page 59 or the "neo-mystics" Rand describes on page 64?

 2. What is mysticism, in Rand's view?

 3. What is collectivism? Where has it been put it into practice?

 4. What is altruism?

 5. In what sense does Rand call the (atheistic) communists and socialists "mystics?"

 6. What period of history does Rand describe as the most rational and most free?

 7. Why are reason and freedom corollaries?

 8. Why are faith and force corollaries?

 9. Nowadays, what political system(s) depend on altruism, and what are opposed to it?

 10. Why does altruism require mysticism?

 11. What is revolutionary about Rand's "moral revolution?"

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