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	Peikoff's Summa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peikoff assumes that the reader is familiar with her novels, and has a fairly high tolerance for abstraction.
		Peikoff presents Objectivism with careful attention to its hierarchical structure, proceeding from the axioms of metaphysics and epistemology; to the issues of sense-perception, concept-formation, and the nature of knowledge; to the values and virtues of the Objectivist ethics; to political philosophy and aesthetics.
		Peikoff unifies these two realms by noting that an organism's life is its existence; by choosing to live, we are adhering to reality in the same way that we are when we choose to think.
	www.objectivistcenter.org /articles/dkelley_review-objectivism-philosophy-of-ayn-rand.asp (2611 words)

	Leonard Peikoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leonard Peikoff (born 1933) is an Objectivist philosopher and author.
		Peikoff's first book, published in 1982, The Ominous Parallels, was simultaneously an Objectivist explanation of the rise of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, and a warning that America was being led down the road to fascism because of certain intellectual parallels between Weimar Germany and the United States.
		Peikoff is also known for campaigning on behalf of Elián González's right to remain in Florida, rather than returning to his father in Cuba, stating that "To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonard_Peikoff (1244 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Leonard Peikoff
		Peikoff has previously helped define and validate the Objectivist theory of induction in the lecture series "Objectivism Through Induction" and the course "Induction in Physics and Philosophy." Decision making is the cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among alternatives.
		Peikoff was a member of the Collective (a group of Rand's closest associates) during the 50's and 60's.
		Leonard Peikoff, Ayn Rand's executor and intellectual heir, promotes Objectivism as a "closed system" that consists solely of what Rand herself wrote and said, and considers any essential disagreement with what Rand said as a betrayal of Objectivism.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Leonard-Peikoff (2928 words)

	Leonard Peikoff - Objectivism Wiki
		Leonard Peikoff (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1933) is an Objectivist philosopher.
		Peikoff's first book, The Ominous Parallels, was simultaneously an Objectivist explanation of the rise of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, and a warning that America was being led down the road to fascism.
		Currently, Peikoff is writing a book called The DIM Hypothesis, where he explains the three varieties of decision-making and applies Objectivist theories of induction to philosophical questions in physics, economics, education, politics and other fields.
	wiki.objectivismonline.net /index.php?title=Leonard_Peikoff&redirect=no (444 words)

	Max Contraction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As Plato was to Socrates, as Mencius was to Confucius, as Chuang-tzu was to Lao-tzu, as Lucretius was to Epicurus, and as Aquinas was to Aristotle, Leonard Peikoff is to Ayn Rand.
		Peikoff has broken new ground (or perhaps reclaimed old ground) for philosophy; making forays into the realms of science, education, business, politics, religion, grammar, history, just war theory and art (including literature), bringing the teachings of Ayn Rand to bear on issues that, heretofore, had not welcomed philosophy’s presence within their realms.
		Leonard Peikoff has accomplished this, often doing so in the teeth of great adversity, because of his intellectual honesty and his passionate belief that the message he had been entrusted with safeguarding was vitally and historically important.
	www.maxcontraction.com /peikoff.htm (1549 words)

	Leonard Peikoff: The world's foremost authority on Ayn Rand's Philosophy: Objectivism
		Peikoff is also collaborating with David Harriman, a noted physicist, on a book entitled Induction in Physics and Philosophy.
		This book is based on a course of the same name, which Dr. Peikoff gave at Objectivist conferences in 2002 and 2003.
		May not be reproduced without the permission of Leonard Peikoff.
	www.peikoff.com (8006 words)

	Leonard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Leonard Nimoy, American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer best known for playing the character Spock in Star Trek
		Leonard McCoy, Starfleet officer in the fictional Star Trek universe
		Leonard Suransky, winner of Des Lee Visiting Lectureship in Global Awareness at Webster University
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonard (156 words)

	Comments on Leonard Peikoff - Objectivism Online Forum
		Peikoff is a harsher critic of today's republicans than he is of the democrats.
		Peikoff writes of a graphic depiction of a gas chamber slaughter, in detail down to the Nazi Youth orchestra and the screams and clawing and blood-spattered hermetically closed door.
		Peikoff's book is the presentation of a rather lame argument and his fighting like hell to justify and defend it.
	forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=119 (3479 words)

	Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peikoff, however, is the first person to pull together into a complete, integrated work the full system of Objectivism.
		Peikoff proceeds to systematically demonstrate why there are no alternatives to the use of our senses to perceive reality and the use of consciousness to integrate our senses and act accordingly.
		Peikoff demonstrates how to use the mind to determine what is rational (i.e., consistent with reality) and what is irrational (i.e., not consistent with reality).
	www.neo-tech.com /global/appendix6.html (2041 words)

	Medworth.org.uk » Blog Archive » Leonard Peikoff at West Point
		Peikoff considered two aspects of war which have to be morally evaluated: the reason for war, and the manner in which it is conducted — the "why" and the "how" of war, the end and the means.
		Peikoff contrasts the Christian idea of self-sacrifice (with the corresponding rejection of self-defence — "turn the other cheek" etc) with the objectivist advocacy of self-defence (which includes the defence of one’s own citizens abroad and their property).
		Peikoff neatly summarises his previous criticisms of the Iraq war by saying "we fought a limited war, to altruistic ends, and the result is the chaos of a country conquered, but unsubdued, because the war was fought not in the name of self-defence, but of love".
	www.medworth.org.uk /?p=97 (2089 words)

	An Ass or a Lion?
		Peikoff concludes his presentation of the Objectivist ethics with a chapter on happiness, which Ayn Rand held to be the "only moral purpose" of one's life (p.325).
		Peikoff's uncritical acceptance of Rand, warts and all, makes one doubly aware of another serious flaw in the book, that Peikoff writes as if he were alone in the world.
		Instead, Dr. Peikoff seems so overwhelmed by the marvellous inheritance which fell into his hands that he remains welded to the spot he was occupying when probate was granted in 1982.
	www.ifi.uio.no /~thomas/po/ass-or-lion.html (3652 words)

	Health Care Is Not A Right
		Copies of Dr. Peikoff's lecture, "Medicine: The Death of a Profession" may be purchased in pamphlet form for $2.50 each (catalog number LP04E) from: Second Renaissance Books, 110 Copperwood Way, P.O. Box 4625, Oceanside, CA 92052, Phone (800) 729-6149.
		From "Medicine: The Death of a Profession" by Leonard Peikoff from concluding remarks from 1985 presentation with Dr. Michael Peikoff.
		Leonard Peikoff, author of The Ominous Parallels and Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand was a long-time (30 year) associate of the novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand and upon her death in 1982 was designated as her intellectual and legal heir.
	www.bdt.com /pages/Peikoff.html (2838 words)

	The Logic of Illogic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peikoff's first bad premise in the sense that it is the one at which his anti-"militia" tirade noticeably began.
		Peikoff's original false premise leads him to conclude that they are to be considered the same, and thus be treated the same.
		Peikoff admits to believing the FBI played some undefined but active role in the death of people who had harmed nobody and were never formally charged with any crime--but to him, those are mere facts.
	www.eoffshore.com /illogic.html (3593 words)

	Amazon.de: Ominous Parallels: English Books: Leonard Peikoff,Ayn Rand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peikoff has undertaken a great task in showing the intellectual roots of Nazism and how they are infecting modern day America.
		Peikoff misses all of this because he his thought processes are vague and associational rather than crisp and logical.
		Peikoff's "The Ominous Parallels" is also a rallying point for all of us who care deeply about the future of our country and the freedom of its citizens.
	www.amazon.de /Ominous-Parallels-Leonard-Peikoff/dp/0452011175 (950 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Book Review: the Ominous Paralells; By Leonard Peikoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peikoff demonstrates how the philosophical principles held by the vast majority of Germans at the time, led to Nazism.
		In the final chapters of "Practice", Peikoff examines modern American intellectuals, and proves that the vast majority of them advocate the same principles of irrationalism, altruism, and collectivism which were fully put into practice in Nazi Germany.
		Peikoff explains that America is the only country in the world created by an idea - individual rights, and how this idea is the anti-thesis of the ideas preached by modern American intellectuals, and Nazis.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1296038 (557 words)

	Laissez Faire Books
		Peikoff explains the role of philosophy as an integrating science, necessary to organize the complex set of concepts we already have as adults, and then dives into fundamentals: the all-important axioms.
		Peikoff then moves into an area where there is less originality, because these issues have been treated at greater length in the Objectivist corpus: ethics and political theory.
		In fact the two are complementary: Peikoff is broader and more sweeping--more "forest-oriented"--while Kelley is more intense, detailed and "tree-oriented." Peikoff covers the purely philosophical aspects of volition more broadly, for example, but Kelley devotes a whole 90-minute lecture to material Peikoff skips, including the scientific question of how volition is possible biologically.
	www.lfb.com /index.php?stocknumber=OB5918 (864 words)

	Peikoff's Genocidal Campaign
		On September 10, 2001, Leonard Peikoff, Ayn Rand’s handpicked intellectual heir and the executor of her estate, had reached new depths of insignificance.
		Peikoff commences his essay by accusing Truman and Eisenhower of surrendering “the West’s property rights in oil, although that oil rightfully belonged to those in the West whose science, technology, and capital made its discovery and use possible.” This surrender, Peikoff avers, occurred for “philosophical” reasons.
		Peikoff, deriving all his intellectual inspiration from the corrupted sources of Rand’s quasi-leftist view of human nature, is not fit to give advice on any important question of social policy.
	www.jrnyquist.com /peikoff's_genocidal_campaign.htm (2437 words)

	Leonard Peikoff takes legal action
		Leonard Peikoff has decided to take legal action against me for having "illegally" translated Ayn Rand into Swedish.
		There is a simple solution to this conflict, namely that Leonard Peikoff gives me back the permission to translate and publish essays by Ayn Rand that he granted me in 1987 and then revoked in 1996.
		Now, given the utter stupidity (and viciousness) of Leonard Peikoff's action, it is not necessary that I lose the law-suit.
	www.nattvakt.com /peikoff.htm (1215 words)

	NoodleFood: Muslim Jihadist Denounces Leonard Peikoff
		Peikoff, is for the United States to eliminate the states that sponsor terrorism with the most lethal weapons at its disposal.
		This is exactly the kind of rotten thinking that animates those living in the extreme west of the globe, from where they spread their rot to the rest of the world -- these politicians of underdevelopment, criminality and mass extermination of humanity.
		Peikoff believes that the appeasement policies pursued by successive US administrations towards the Islamic world are responsible for the latter's belligerence, which climaxed on 9/11.
	www.dianahsieh.com /blog/2006/09/muslim-jihadist-denounces-leonard.html (960 words)

	Leonard Peikoff \| America Versus Americans \| WGBH Forum Network \| Free Online Lectures
		Leonard Peikoff, intellectual heir to Ayn Rand, explores the unlikely tension between a democratic nation and its people.
		Peikoff claims that, from its beginning, America has stood for the ideals of the Enlightenment: reason, individual rights, capitalism, and the pursuit of happiness.
		In this talk, Peikoff analyzes and rejects the Bush administration response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S., from 9/11 until today.
	forum.wgbh.org /wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1150 (179 words)

	Leonard Peikoff at West Point (DVD)-Ayn Rand Bookstore
		Peikoff presents the Objectivist position on the topic of war in clear, unambiguous terms, which results in fireworks from certain faculty members in attendance.
		Also included is Dr. Peikoff's general overview of Objectivism, and the Objectivist position on key issues such as abortion, selfishness, altruism, and the Objectivist alternative to the two common intellectual schools of Skepticism and Religion.
		Peikoff goes on to make clear the need for selfish, rational values specifically in a soldier's life.
	aynrandbookstore2.com /store/prodinfo.asp?number=LP79DV&variation=&... (270 words)

	Leonard Peikoff at West Point (DVD)-Ayn Rand Bookstore
		Objectivist history was made on September 30, 2003, when Dr. Leonard Peikoff spoke to the faculty and cadets of West Point Military Academy.
		Peikoff presents the Objectivist position on the topic of war in clear, unambiguous terms, which results in fireworks from certain faculty members in attendance.
		Also included is Dr. Peikoff's general overview of Objectivism, and the Objectivist position on key issues such as abortion, selfishness, altruism, and the Objectivist alternative to the two common intellectual schools of Skepticism and Religion.
	www.aynrandbookstore2.com /prodinfo.asp?number=LP79DV (262 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Objectivism: the Philosophy of Ayn Rand: Books: Leonard Peikoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This comment is quite representative of the level of 'philosophy' in Leonard Peikoff's presentation of 'Objectivism'.
		Peikoff has cogently assembled all the principles of Objectivism into a hierarchical, systematic, lucid, comprehensive system of ideas-that system being the philosophy of Ayn Rand: Objectivism.
		Peikoff, her intellectual heir, has acheived this systematization in clear and lucid fashion.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Objectivism-Philosophy-Rand-Leonard-Peikoff/dp/0452011019 (1088 words)

	Capitalism Magazine > About Leonard Peikoff
		In 1951, when he was 17-years-old, Leonard Peikoff made a trip to California that changed the course of his life.
		Peikoff returned to his native Canada where he finished his pre-med program at the University of Manitoba.
		Peikoff, who is a naturalized American citizen, was born in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1933.
	www.capmag.com /author.asp?name=6 (982 words)

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