Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Who Inspired ‘The Terminal,’ Dies in Paris Airport A month after being detained for attempting to smuggle a small box of gold on January 18, 2020. He was arrested by French authorities on the day his flight from Spain to Paris was supposed to take off. The box of gold was discovered in a bag hidden in Karimi’s suitcase. A French court sentenced him to two years in prison for fraud. His only defense was his argument on how to smuggle the gold from Spain to France. He was arrested just after he arrived at Paris’s Orly airport.
The Terminal: The Secret History of Ayn Rand’s First Book The first published book of Ayn Rand’s short life was “The Fountainhead,” which in her notes she called “The Great American Novel.” Her other works include “Atlas Shrugged,” and “Atlas Shrugged: Part II”.
The Man Who Wasn’t There: Why Rand’s Philosophy Fails to Deliver A case of the hand-washing syndrome. Rand says in the introduction to her 1958 book “The Fountainhead,” the first chapter of which was ghost written by B. B. Dick, that her philosophy failed to deliver in “the first half century of the life of the world.”
The Objectivist Ethics in Action: The Life and Work of Ayn Rand’s First Philosopher-Author As the founder of the Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand had a keen interest in ethics. In her autobiography “The Romantic Manifesto,” she says, “All philosophy begins with a question concerning man’s attitude toward himself.” Rand explains further, “There is nothing we can call a ‘fact’ or a ‘truth’ that doesn’t presuppose a choice to be made between two opposing systems of values. A true system of values is one that makes sense to the individual, and his attitude toward himself is the attitude that goes to make sense of all values in his life.”
The Virtue of Selfishness: How To Stop Being Moral and How to Give Your Kid a Career The moral philosophy of Rand’s most famous book, “The Virtue of Selfishness,” does not deliver on its promise. Rand’s moral philosophy is based on an argument that is at its core: an argument that does not even succeed when it is applied to the question of how to stop being evil
