| Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum | |
| 艾茵·蘭德 | |
| 阿麗薩·濟諾維耶芙娜·羅森鮑姆 | |
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Ayn Rand安・蘭德崇理性，認為人的最高美德便是理性；她不顧傳統輿論的偏見，力倡個人主義，認為不能使個人利益得到最大伸張的社會，就不是理想社會。她的客觀主義哲學處20世紀50年代起風靡美國校園，影響了幾代美國人，她本人也成為美國青年崇拜的偶像。安・蘭德一生著述百餘種，根據她的生平拍攝的記錄片和故事片曾獲奧斯卡奬。1982年安・蘭德去世後，美國創立了許多蘭德書友會和專門研究安・蘭德思想的機構。
艾茵·蘭德（英語：Ayn Rand，1905年2月2日－1982年3月6日），原名“阿麗薩·濟諾維耶芙娜·羅森鮑姆”（俄語：Алиса Зиновьевна Розенбаум）俄裔美國哲學家、小說傢。她的哲學理論和小說開創了客觀主義哲學運動，她同時也寫下了《源頭》、《阿特拉斯聳聳肩》等數本暢銷的小說。
她的哲學和小說裏強調個人主義的概念、理性利己主義（“理性的私利”）、以及徹底自由放任的資本主義。她相信人們必須透過理性選擇他們的價值觀和行動；個人有絶對權利衹為他自己的利益而活，無須為他人而犧牲自己的利益、但也不可強迫他人替自己犧牲；沒有任何人有權利透過暴力或詐騙奪取他人的財産、或是透過暴力強加自己的價值觀給他人。她的政治理念可以被形容為小政府主義和自由意志主義，雖然她從來沒有使用第一個稱呼自稱過、而且相當厭惡第二個稱呼。
蘭德的小說所要表達的目標是要展示她理想中的英雄：一個因為其能力和獨立性格而與社會産生衝突的人，但卻依然奮鬥不懈朝他的理想邁進。Ayn Rand (/aɪn/; born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;[b] February 2, [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism and rejected altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed collectivism and statism as well as anarchism, instead supporting laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system based on recognizing individual rights, including property rights. In art, Rand promoted romantic realism. She was sharply critical of most philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her, except for Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and classical liberals.
Literary critics received Rand's fiction with mixed reviews and academia generally ignored or rejected her philosophy, though academic interest has increased in recent decades. The Objectivist movement attempts to spread her ideas, both to the public and in academic settings. She has been a significant influence among libertarians and American conservatives.