Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Objectivism

My publications on Objectivism and Ayn Rand

The Non-fiction

Ayn Rand
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2001.

“Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” [pdf]. Published in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 10:2, Spring 2009, 249-291.

Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics [pdf]
Originally published in The Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy 3:1 (Winter 2003), pp. 1-26.
Also available online at the Social Science Research Network, in Kindle e-book format, and in a monograph edition from Amazon.com.
Also available in Korean and German translation.
Abstract: “Most traditional systems of business ethics hold that business is essentially amoral or immoral. Such systems share a common assumption: that conflicts of interest—either because of scarce resources or innate human badness or sin—are basic to the human condition. That assumption of fundamental conflict is rejected in Ayn Rand’s system of ethics. Rand’s system, by contrast, emphasizes the power of human reason to shape one’s character and beliefs, and it makes fundamental reason’s power to develop new resources and cultivate win-win social relationships. In this essay, Stephen Hicks applies Rand’s radical ethical perspective to key issues in business ethics and contrasts it to those perspectives based on the assumption of the amorality or immorality of business.”

Review of Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics [pdf]
Philosophy in Review, October 2007.

Review of Donna Greiner and Theodore Kinni’s Ayn Rand and Business
The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 4:2, Spring 2003.

Review of Ronald Merrill’s The Ideas of Ayn Rand
(Disclaimer: I didn’t choose the title for this review of Merrill’s good-but-not-great book.)

Nietzsche and Objectivism.
Spring 2000 online course archived at The Objectivist Center.

Hayek and Rand on Reason

Movement in-fighting and schisms [Neo-Kantians, Freudians, and Rand's comments on Frank Lloyd Wright's circle.]

The Fiction

Roark and Keating: First meetings

Toohey’s five strategies of altruism

Gail Wynand’s power strategy: Part 1, Part 2

Gordon Prescott: Heidegger’s disciple?

Marcel Duchamp and Lillian Rearden

John Jermyn and Ken Danagger

Atlas Shrugged is really a documentary, datum #217

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Here’s a link to the official site for the Atlas Shrugged 2011 movie.

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