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(Continued from page 2) That means intuition, emotion, and faith have no validity as paths to knowledge.
Reason, she contends, is not automatic. "To think or not to think, therein lies man's only form of freedom." Further, she contends;
He should, she says, treat his fellow men as equals in the sense that he claims nothing from them without their consent.
Man has no inherent moral code. He needs to discover a code of values for himself, to fit his own nature. Thus, all that which is required for the life of a rational being is the good; all that which would destroy it is evil.
out their consolitions.
The ideal social relationship is that of traders; one trades goods and services for other goods and services; one trades affection for virtues.
Government, under the Objectivist microscope, should function soley as a police agency to prevent people from initiating physical force against one another. Taxation for welfare is legalized looting. Economy and state should stand as separate as church and state.
MAN'S NOBLEST activity is to think and produce, and his highest purpose is his own happiness.
Thus saveth Avn Rand.
UNDER THIS system, man will be free to choose his own work and to do work for his own profit (happiness), the amount of which will be determined by the voluntary choice of everybody who wants to trade with him.
The late Whittaker Chambers, writing in conservative William F. Buckley's National Review, complains that Miss Rand is "aetheistic, materialistic, ridiculous" in her approach to society.
John Chamberlain, a distinguished right-winger, feels that her thoughts are "directed toward the creation of an entirely new mental and moral force in the world." Dr. Ruth Alexander, a public commentator for the New York Mirror, believes, "Ayn Rand is destined to rank in history as an outstanding novelist and profound philosopher of the twentieth century."
COMMENTING in the New Republic, Joel Rosenbloom insists she is not to be classed with the members of the Birch Society.
He says, "Rudimentary as it is, the Rand system provides a viewpoint on the essential meaning of history and the significance of current events, as well as a rough
guide to personal morality (of a sort). There is just enough truth about unprovable matters in its major assertions to make adherence by self-respecting persons possible, for a while."
Later on, Rosenbloom decides Objectivism has little chance of spreading its influence very far because of its anti-religious nature; but he does not deny the philosophy—or its author—a following
AND, GETTING back to the conservative-liberal question, Garry Wills—also commenting in the National Review—comes up with the surprising thought that Rand is a liberal masked as a conservative.
"She or others like her will be around . . . as long as there are non-religious intellectuals on the Right who feel the need to see politics and life in terms of one rigid and all-embracing dogma."
"When Rand asserts the immediate perfectibility of man . . . she is working from the first principle of historical Liberalism," he wrote. "Such fanatic concentration on one kind of earthly achievement is the sure sign of the breakdown of Western civilization."
Peace Corps Leaders Set
John Fairhurst, Wichita junior. University of Kansas, has been named 1963-64 chairman of the University of Kansas Peace Corps committee.
He will head the organization formed by students last fall to encourage interest in the Peace Corps through a speakers' bureau and other projects. The group also has been conducting a survey for the national Peace Corps office.
FAIRHURST WAS chairman of the first statewide Peace Corps conference held at KU this spring. Other Peace Corps committee members for 1963-64 are:
Fred Slicker, Tulsa, Okla. sophomore,
treasurer; Laurie Fitzgerald, Independence,
Mo., freshman; secretary; Robert Crosier,
Lawrence sophomore; events chairman Nurtay Murray, Lea-
somphore, publicity chairman;
Donna Hunt, Kansas City, Mo., freshman,
projects chairman; Connie Kossfeld, Eur-
St. Louis, Il.; sophomore, jurist chairman;
John Sullivan, Lawrence junior,
news media chairman; Carl Kuhman,
Topeka junior, speakers' bureau chair-
man; Donna Hanneman Junction,
freshman; publicity chairman; Kuhman,
Soufer, Lakewood, Colo.
freshman, distribution chairman, and
Robert Swan, Topeka junior, adviser.
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Tuesday, June 11, 1963
Art Piece By Student Worth $3500
A design begun one year ago by a KU graduate student has been transformed into a silver and gold monstrance worth $3500.
Ann Nunley, who has spent a large part of the last five months working on the piece in the jewelry and silversmithing workshop, delivered the piece last month to its final destination, a Catholic national shrine in Belleville, Ill.
The monstrance is 22 inches high and weighs almost 10 pounds. It is a modern design combining forms of nature in a modified sunburst effect. A sunburst design on a tall stem is the traditional form of a monstrance.
THE SHRINE rs the Church of Our Lady of the Snows, served by the Oblate Fathers. The monstrance, a vessel in which the consecrated host is exposed for veneration of the faithful, will be placed on the altar in late June.
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