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Randianism

Consider this list of philosophies: Rationalism, Empiricism, Analytic philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, German Idealism, Socialism, Anarcho-Socialism, State-Communism, Libertarianism, Moral Realism, Solipsism. Next, consider this list of philosophies: Platonism, Kantianism, Hegelianism, The philosophy of Nietzsche, The philosophy of Sartre, Aristotelianism, The philosophy of Wittgenstein, Marxism, The philosophy of John Locke. Each of these things are what ordinary people would call a "philosophy." But these are not one thing, these are two types of things, the first set of which, from the first list, is what I call a systematic philosophy, and the second set of which, from the second list set forth above, I would call an individual's philosophy. A systematic philosophy is a philosophical system comprised of a set of philosophical views, while an individual's philosophy is the philosophy of one individual philosopher. Note, however, that each systematic philo...