BIGBANGSingh Posted December 18, 2003 Report Share Posted December 18, 2003 How much non-Objectivist philosophy did Ayn Rand study? Was she well versed in other philosophies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbrown Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Her college transcripts are available somewhere and I seem to remember that someone correlated them with classes and teachers given at the time. She herself made only some oblique references to her studies, noting that she read extensively in Aristotle and trudged through Kant for some book review. She had a history degree from a Russian or Soviet college (I can't remember the exact year that she graduated but it was probably Soviet given that she would have been 12 at the time of the revolution.) She also noted that she was a voracious reader, so I wouldn't doubt that she'd read a lot of philosophy given her obvious interest in the subject. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinorityOfOne Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 I think she was a philosophy minor. You can find some of the things she read in the Marginalia book, though it's just a small sampling. (Some of her margin notes are really funny. Definitely worth a read.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidV Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Sciabarra has the full details of her university education at http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/essays/randt2.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbrown Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Sciabarra has the full details of her university education at http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/essays/randt2.htm Thanks, that's where I had read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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