Kurt Keefner
"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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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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Kurt Keefner
- Jun 30, 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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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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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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Kurt Keefner
- Oct 16, 2020
- 7 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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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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Kurt Keefner
- May 15, 2020
- 9 min
The Bust of Caesar
Some characters are perfectly realized without being merely allegorical.
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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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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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Kurt Keefner
- Dec 16, 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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Kurt Keefner
- Oct 9, 2017
- 7 min
The Lesson of Maecenas
To judge or not to judge, that is the question.
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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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