Objectivism.
             Knowing who Ayn Rand was and what Objectivism is are becoming part of what
             it means to be culturally literate in America. Critics say that there is no other
             writer who could more readily cut through to the essence of an issue, explain it,
             resolve it, and impress the reader with the urgency that everyone understand it.
             She could show how and why philosophical ideas matter, in our personal lives, in
             movie theaters, book stores and art museums, in parliament or Congress (Peikoff
             Rand's philosophy is presented in detail in Atlas Shrugged, Introduction to
             Objectivism Epistemology, and The Virtue of Selfishness. She once said,
             "Existence exists-- and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary
             axiom: that something exists which once perceives and that one exists possessing
             consciousness, consciousness being the faculty of perceiving that which exits."
             According to Leonard Peikoff existence and consciousness are facts implicit in
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