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This article is from the Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism FAQ, by Chris Walker cwalker@aquila.ece.utexas.edu with numerous contributions by others.

04 Ayn Rand's Debt to Aristotle

Just as Ayn Rand works within the philosophic tradition established
by Plato, she owed a great debt to the man who answered most of Plato's
questions, Aristotle.

"The only philosophical debt I can acknowledge is to Aristotle. I
most emphatically disagree with a great many parts of his philosophy--but
his definition of the laws of logic and of the means of human knowledge is
so great an achievement that his errors are irrelevant by comparison."

"About the Author," Appendix to "Atlas Shrugged" quoted from
"The Ayn Rand Lexicon", p344

 

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