Ayn Rand

Glass-Prison wrote: I agree. Her philosophy is quite obscure (Hell, nobody can say for certain what miss Rand saw in an ideal world), but nonetheless, she has had a significant impact on modern politics. And she's still mainly ignored... a genius ahead of her time.

Rand's ideal world is found in Atlas Shrugged, in Galt's Gulch. Basically her utopian objectivist world is similar to that of what Jefferson had envisioned two-hundred years before, a free society where everybody has property and trades freely for their needs. Its also very much a utopia of what Adam Smith described in Wealth of Nations.  This is what she describes as utopia, but her philosophy and I think her outlook on it was not utopian. As she said herself, "My philosophy is a philosophy for living on Earth." As she was a rationalist and opposed to the utopian ideas of Marx and co., it only follows that she wouldn't be much of a utopian to begin with.

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good answer

James Lee wrote: ^ must be a minimalist. me, I'm a solipsist. I don't have definitive evidence than any of you really exist.

Not deductive evidence, but you certainly have empirical evidence.