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    "For the Love of Wisdom"
    Kurt Keefner
    • Nov 20, 2021
    • 5 min

    "For the Love of Wisdom"

    I have decided to write another book, tentatively titled For the Love of Wisdom. It is going to be the sum of all my thinking about...
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    Descending Mount Olympus
    Kurt Keefner
    • Aug 9, 2021
    • 7 min

    Descending Mount Olympus

    Following Ayn Rand too closely stranded me on a mountain peak. Here's how I came down.
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    The Perfecting of Howard Roark
    Kurt Keefner
    • Jul 1, 2021
    • 16 min

    The Perfecting of Howard Roark

    Howard Roark is no statue. This is the story of his development as a human character.
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    The Fate of Atlas
    Kurt Keefner
    • May 20, 2021
    • 7 min

    The Fate of Atlas

    I really enjoyed Greek mythology as a boy, but I was never much interested in Atlas. His brother Prometheus, who created humankind and...
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    Self-Realization and Ecology
    Kurt Keefner
    • Feb 18, 2021
    • 11 min

    Self-Realization and Ecology

    How to become who you are naturally rather than by force.
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    The Defects of His Virtues, The Virtues of His Defects
    Kurt Keefner
    • Oct 16, 2020
    • 6 min

    The Defects of His Virtues, The Virtues of His Defects

    The paradoxical characters of Oskar Schindler, Howard Roark and Shakespeare's Brutus
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    Man and Nature in The Fountainhead
    Kurt Keefner
    • Sep 11, 2020
    • 11 min

    Man and Nature in The Fountainhead

    Architecture is the interface between man and nature. An opportunity for a theme!
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    The Bust of Caesar
    Kurt Keefner
    • May 15, 2020
    • 9 min

    The Bust of Caesar

    Some characters are perfectly realized without being merely allegorical.
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    Selfishness —Not Just a Virtue but an Art
    Kurt Keefner
    • Mar 19, 2020
    • 5 min

    Selfishness —Not Just a Virtue but an Art

    A guide to saying Yes and saying No. Dr Seabury got there 20 years before Miss Rand.
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    Surrender in The Fountainhead.
    Carrie-Ann Biondi
    • Mar 2, 2018
    • 9 min

    Surrender in The Fountainhead.

    You would expect Ayn Rand not to like the concept of "surrender," but sometimes she does.
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    Heroes and Shipwrecks:  Beethoven and Ayn Rand
    Kurt Keefner
    • Dec 17, 2017
    • 11 min

    Heroes and Shipwrecks: Beethoven and Ayn Rand

    In which the sense of life in Beethoven's Fifth is compared to that of Atlas Shrugged.
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    The Lesson of Maecenas
    Kurt Keefner
    • Oct 10, 2017
    • 7 min

    The Lesson of Maecenas

    To judge or not to judge, that is the question.
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    John Galt, Alternative Christ
    Kurt Keefner
    • May 8, 2014
    • 24 min

    John Galt, Alternative Christ

    My thesis is that John Galt, hero of Ayn Rand's magnum opus Atlas Shrugged, can be regarded as an "alternative Christ." An alternative...
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