Society
Society is a large number of men who live together in the same country, and who deal with one another.
“Textbook of Americanism,” The Ayn Rand Column, 88.
Modern collectivists . . . see society as a super-organism, as some supernatural entity apart from and superior to the sum of its individual members.
“Collectivized ‘Rights,’” The Virtue of Selfishness, 103.
A great deal may be learned about society by studying man; but this process cannot be reversed: nothing can be learned about man by studying society—by studying the inter-relationships of entities one has never identified or defined.
“What Is Capitalism?” Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 15.
See also COLLECTIVISM; INDIVIDUALISM.
Copyright © 1986 by Harry Binswanger. Introduction copyright © 1986 by Leonard Peikoff. All rights reserved. For information address New American Library.
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