Ayn Rand’s fiction has been the most effective “gateway drug” to liberty, which is why CATO Institute founder Ed Crane deemed Rand the “all time greatest recruiter for the liberty movement.”
THE CHALLENGE: How to preserve and grow that recruiting role when daily reading of books among young people has fallen from 70% in the late 1970’s to 12% today?
The Atlas Society is meeting this challenge: pioneering artistic, technologically savvy ways of marketing Rand’s ideas to new audiences through a variety of vehicles. This includes animated videos, graphic novels, social media, and both virtual and live events.
Ayn Rand's philosophical works have been praised as presenting historic breakthroughs in thinking. At the Atlas Society, our scholars work to further develop this philosophy born in the mid-twentieth century. We present the empowering principles of Objectivism to a global audience, and offer those principles as a rational and moral alternative in the marketplace of philosophical ideas.
Our content and our world-class faculty of scholars promote the principles of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, set forth in such works as her epic novel Atlas Shrugged, and in her brilliant non-fiction essays. Objectivism is designed as a guide to life, and celebrates the remarkable potential and power of the individual. Objectivism also challenges the doctrines of irrationalism, self-sacrifice, brute force, and collectivism that have brought centuries of chaos and misery into the lives of millions of individuals.
The Atlas Society’s mission is to inspire people to embrace reason, achievement, benevolence, and ethical self-interest as the moral foundation for political liberty, personal happiness and a flourishing society.
We build on Ayn Rand’s works and ideas and use artistic and other creative means to reach and inspire new audiences. We promote an open and empowering brand of Objectivism; we welcome engagement with all who seek to understand the philosophy, and we use reason, facts, and open debate in the search for truth above all else; we do not appeal to authority or conflate personalities with ideas.
我們通過各種計劃來做到這一點,其中包括:
阿特拉斯協會由大衛·凱利於1990年創立,當時名為客觀主義研究所。在研究所成立時的聲明中(自發表在《安·蘭德的有爭議的遺產》中以來),大衛·凱利呼籲開展一場開放的、智力寬容的客觀主義運動,其特點是仁慈和理性的生活感。今天,阿特拉斯協會站在該運動分支的核心。並非所有的客觀主義者和安·蘭德的崇拜者都同意凱利博士的願景,客觀主義運動繼續因激烈的、往往是個人的分歧和辯論而分裂。在我們網站的這一部分,我們提供的資源解釋了客觀主義的開放,仁慈的方法,並對針對我們的計劃和工作的批評做出回應。