wisest woman ever

Clearly the distributors are economists

Rand's funeral was attended by some of her prominent followers, including Alan Greenspan. A six-foot floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign was placed near her casket.
wowsers...

I love it, every word of it.
Similar to my theory that we only need one law: Mind your own business.
Long live Ayn Rand.

I always hated her writing... and from that hated her philosophy.. but some of what she says here isn't as ridiculous as her books make it seem.

Which books did you read lmagoamin? For those well-versed in philosophy, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are not the type of texts you want to read, largely because they were written for the layman. She had an incredible mind.

I read both titles and studied her philosophy in my teens. Looking back now, I see she had a huge impact on my life.

Thanks for the reminder, and the great post!

I read Anthem when I was younger. I couldn't stand the writing style. I agree with some of what she said in this clip, some I'm wishy washy on.. But you're right, she does seem very smart.. but just that her writing always painted her philosophy in a bad light to me.

Objectivism doesn't jibe well with the realm of the very small. Things do not behave in an objective manner at the quantum scale, so the principle of identity is violated.

I believe that if Ayn Rand were still alive, she would be struggling to restructure her philosophy around Quantum Theory.

Other than that, I agree with her political and economic views 100%.

Influenced by Aristotel? Thats bad. Really bad. Onjectivism? Who the hell has the philosophiocal audacity to call their philosophy "Objectivism"
OBJECTIVISM fr' krists sake

"Reality the Objective absolute"? How is that different from blind beliefe in God? How!?
The statement istelf has no rational menaing - what the hell isthe absolute? What the objective absolute?
What IS reality? WHERE is it? The senses? The mind?


This is absolute demagogery,
If you want to batle "the modern morality" battle its hypocrisy, dont go doin' the "absolute" dialectical mistake, like a kid who hates his father and then does and likes the opposite of everything the father likes.


Oh, and anyone who has ever loved should know that it has nuthin to do with rationality, or "worth" (whatever that may be but the visual/auditive testimony and trapings of the world)
It's an emotion and therefore, by definition or at least by genesis irrational.

I daydream of watching her and Karl Marx debate over tea. They had some uncanny similarities.

What are they? Do tell...

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The assumption that men are rational is demonstrably false.