THE INFLUENCE OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY ON THE ATTITUDE OF AYN RAND TO THE PROPERTY CATEGORY
This article is devoted to the study of the context and source of formation of views of the writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, founder of the philosophical direction of objectivism on the property category. It is asserted that Ayn Rand’s views formed under the influence of the views of the New time philosophers, who developed the thesis of labour as the source of main natural cost of property. This article analyzes the attitude to the property category of the founders of the Modern philosophers - John Locke, Adam Smith. Their views on the role of labour in respect to the property category created the attitude to the property category in the works and lectures of Ayn Rand. In this context, the definition of capitalism given by Ayn Rand most fully reflects the philosophy of objectivism.