Logic

I'm writing to inform you of some organizational changes LOGIC is undergoing, as well as an exciting development. The LOGIC you've come to know over the last seven years has come to an end. The current student leadership and I have a difference in vision for the organization, and so we've decided that it's best to formally part ways. Although it is... disappointing that UCLA will not have an Objectivist club in the near future, this end brings a new and exciting beginning: with everything that I learned about running a successful philosophy organization, I am expanding LOGIC into a broader activism project. To learn more, read on I started reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged in 2002, the summer I turned 18. I didn't finish until almost a year later, toward the end of the 2002 - 2003 academic year at UCLA. Ayn Rand's ideas resonated with me quite strongly, and over the course of the 2003 - 2004 academic year, I devoured almost all of her fiction and non-fiction works. I tried to get in touch with the UCLA Objectivist Club, but they seemed only to exist on paper, and so I set out to start my own club where I could learn more about philosophy and surround myself with like-minded people. So in Fall 2004, I registered L.O.G.I.C. with the school, which at the time, stood for "Liberty Objectivity Greed Individualism Capitalism". I still wasn't completely clear on Objectivist ideas back then, so I didn't call myself an Objectivist, and L.O.G.I.C. wasn't explicitly an Objectivist club. My (our) purpose was to figure out what's true in philosophy--and in practice, that meant reading and discussing Ayn Rand's ideas. Throughout the years, LOGIC was always more to me than just a student club that I happened to start and get involved with. Not only did I realize how crucial it is to understand one's own philosophy, but I realized how important it was to make sure that one's philosophy was true. And I don't mean "true" in just some abstract intellectual-ivory-tower sense--I mean that it is based on and works in reality. I ...Read More