Jew author/philosopher, Ayn Rand, useful, instructive for both good, bad....

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Ayn Rand: Excellent Student, Expositor Of Philosophy, Aristotle, And Kant
(Apollonian, 16 Jan 19)

I read "Atlas Shrugged," by Rand, a Jew fm Russia--I thought it was a good book, esp. for Rand's purpose of expounding a philosophy, but also to dramatize it as in a story, that philosophy being basically Aristotelian. Rand is known as a good, competent Aristotelian, and I thought I learned a lot about philosophy and good old Aristotle.

Rand's one anomaly is while she endorses Aristotle's OBJECTIVITY as basic metaphysical premise, yet, typical Jew, she wants to deny DETERMINISM, absolute cause-effect, no perfectly "free" will. Typical Jew, Rand wants to preserve "free" will, hence preserving the typical Jew pretense to "good-evil."

Rand also does excellent job, I thought, analyzing one of the foremost philosophers of this modern age, Immanuel Kant, who ALSO wanted to preserve the pretension to "good-evil" in way of DUTY being the foundation of ethics. Rand hated Kant--even though both of them pretended to the same sort of moralism involving "good-evil." I guess Rand thought of Kant as a rival.

Another excellent thing about Rand is she expounded the free-market political philosophy, showing how politics follows fm ethics in proper logic and applies then to economics. So that's why her works are so long, esp. "Atlas...," she wanting to both (a) expound the philosophy, (b) and also to dramatizing it in a real-life depiction. I thought she did reasonably good job in accomplishing her tasks, and I'm sure lots of others appreciated it too.


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# 170, follyofwar says:
January 16, 2019 at 6:02 pm GMT • 100 Words
@Achmed E. Newman

If you think “The Fountainhead” was bad (I actually liked it), try Rand’s 1200 page tome “Atlas Shrugged.” Part way thru, I couldn’t take it anymore, as her pedantic philosophical passages droned on and on for endless pages. I’ve read that it comes in second in number of sales next to the Bible. I guess there’s no accounting for taste.

Actually “Atlas” was so long that they made into a trilogy, in which the actors were changed each time. That ruined it for me. (It’s interesting that none of them wanted to come back again). The first one wasn’t bad and the actress playing Rand’s main character, Dagny Taggart, was quite pretty. The second one was awful and the actress playing Dagny was, to be kind, well past her prime. I lost all interest in seeing the third one.