{"id":206,"date":"2019-11-06T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=206"},"modified":"2019-11-05T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:25:29","slug":"what-makes-ayn-rands-philosophy-distinctive-by-onkar-ghate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/06\/what-makes-ayn-rands-philosophy-distinctive-by-onkar-ghate\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Ayn Rand\u2019s Philosophy Distinctive? by Onkar Ghate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever wondered what Ayn Rand\u2019s philosophy\u2014which she called Objectivism\u2014is all about? Why is she such a controversial figure with millions of fans who love <em>The Fountainhead <\/em>and <em>Atlas Shrugged <\/em>but also with many, many critics who call her books and ideas evil?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Onkar Ghate, a senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, discusses Objectivism exploring especially Rand&#8217;s moral and religious views, which are at the heart of her radicalness. Ghate also considers why she championed self-interest and her new conception of a moral hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what Ayn Rand\u2019s philosophy\u2014which she called Objectivism\u2014is all about? Why is she such a controversial figure with millions of fans who love The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged but also with many, many critics who call her books and ideas evil? Onkar Ghate, a senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, discusses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,7,519,310,37,66,451,12,41,6],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-atlas-shrugged","tag-ayn-rand","tag-controversy","tag-hero","tag-morality","tag-objectivism","tag-onkar-ghate","tag-philosophy","tag-religion","tag-the-fountainhead","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}