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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2004 at 14:10
Originally posted by Glass-Prison Glass-Prison wrote:

I agree. Her philosophy is quite obscure (Hell, nobody can say for certain what miss Rand saw in an ideal world), but nonetheless, she has had a significant impact on modern politics.

And she's still mainly ignored... a genius ahead of her time.



Rand's ideal world is found in Atlas Shrugged, in Galt's Gulch. Basically her utopian objectivist world is similar to that of what Jefferson had envisioned two-hundred years before, a free society where everybody has property and trades freely for their needs. Its also very much a utopia of what Adam Smith described in Wealth of Nations.  This is what she describes as utopia, but her philosophy and I think her outlook on it was not utopian. As she said herself, "My philosophy is a philosophy for living on Earth." As she was a rationalist and opposed to the utopian ideas of Marx and co., it only follows that she wouldn't be much of a utopian to begin with.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2004 at 22:04
Does anybody else follow or highly support other philosophies?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2004 at 03:52

Let the Living Slack Master J.R. "Bob" Dobbs be your guide on the road to enlightenment.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2004 at 04:08

Originally posted by Sweetnighter Sweetnighter wrote:

Does anybody else follow or highly support other philosophies?

Yeah.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2004 at 10:51
good answer
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2004 at 18:23

^ must be a minimalist.

me, I'm a solipsist. I don't have definitive evidence than any of you really exist.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 13 2004 at 19:20
Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

^ must be a minimalist.

me, I'm a solipsist. I don't have definitive evidence than any of you really exist.



Not deductive evidence, but you certainly have empirical evidence.
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