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.
हम इसे विभिन्न कार्यक्रमों के माध्यम से करते हैं, जिनमें शामिल हैं:
एटलस सोसाइटी की स्थापना डेविड केली ने 1990 में द इंस्टीट्यूट फॉर ऑब्जेक्टिविस्ट स्टडीज के रूप में की थी। संस्थान की स्थापना में अपने बयान में (चूंकि द कॉन्टेस्टेड लेगेसी ऑफ ऐन रैंड में प्रकाशित), डेविड केली ने एक खुले, बौद्धिक रूप से सहिष्णु ऑब्जेक्टिविस्ट आंदोलन का आह्वान किया, जो जीवन की उदार और तर्कसंगत भावना की विशेषता है। आज, एटलस सोसाइटी आंदोलन की इस शाखा के केंद्र में खड़ी है। ऐन रैंड के सभी ऑब्जेक्टिविस्ट और प्रशंसक डॉ केली की दृष्टि से सहमत नहीं हुए हैं, और ऑब्जेक्टिविस्ट आंदोलन तीव्र और अक्सर व्यक्तिगत मतभेदों और बहसों द्वारा खुद के खिलाफ विभाजित है। हमारी वेबसाइट के इस खंड में, हम संसाधन प्रदान करते हैं जो ऑब्जेक्टिविज्म के लिए खुले, उदार दृष्टिकोण की व्याख्या करते हैं और हमारे कार्यक्रम और काम पर निर्देशित आलोचनाओं के जवाब प्रदान करते हैं।