Ayn Rand
TheRandianNemesis
13-02-2005, 23:38
ayn rand is the koolest ever and 2005 is the yr of ayn rand so lets all celebrate. it would be great and a=a.
Super-power
13-02-2005, 23:39
Ayn Rand is the person who influenced me the most to become libertarian. W00t, we're a very Randy bunch, wouldn't you say?
Soviet Haaregrad
13-02-2005, 23:43
Ayn Rand is a nut.
She believes in some perfect fantasy world where hard work is the cure for everything.
V_equals_v0_plus_at
13-02-2005, 23:52
Ayn Rand is a nut.
She believes in some perfect fantasy world where hard work is the cure for everything.
Eh, her and I diverged when Peikoff said something in the first chapter of Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand about all things acting in accordance with their noncontradictory nature.
But there's a distinct difference between a radical and a nut, and Ayn Rand, IMHO, is more of the former.
New Anthrus
14-02-2005, 00:00
I think that Ayn Rand is hit or miss. She is rampantly opposed to charity or religion, and she made some stupid statements. She knew nothing about politics, and had a very strong sense of morality for someone who was so individualistic.
However, her moral defense of self interest, reason, and capitalism strikes a chord with me. I have never heard anyone so poignantly defend these ideals as she did.
I've never cared for her views myself, they in essance lacked empathy and "heart". A soulless, sterile philosophy at best. She was all logic and nothing else.
Quarnessa
14-02-2005, 00:10
Bah... Ayn Rand... Patron Saint to snotty antisocial wannabe intellectual teens with delusions of gaining omnipotent plutocracy. ;D
I enjoy Ayn's work very much (from what I've read so far), and find it inspiring. Yup, she's a radical though, not suprising considering the time in which she was writing.
Although her brand of philosophy (Objectivism) still looks awfully tame when compared to say, Karl Marx.
Windly Queef
14-02-2005, 00:32
Ayn Rand is a nut.
She believes in some perfect fantasy world where hard work is the cure for everything.
She had many dogmas within her. A human, I guess. I enjoy her writing as I do many humans--acknowledging there's no one without flaw.