Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 7

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Fallacious Presumptions: The validity of knowledge depends on "proper" concept formation. Rand assumes that the "validity...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 6

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Fallacious Presumptions: Rand's implicit theory of mind. Although Rand never developed a complete theory of mind, an implicit theory of...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 5

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Fallacious Presumptions: the facts upon which epistemology is based are discoverable through introspection. Early on in her Introduction to...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 4

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Fallacious Presumptions: over-emphasizing how one attains knowledge. In his book on logic, John Stuart Mill asserted the following: "...
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Sunday, July 01, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 3

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Fallacious Presumptions: Active Consciousness.   In my last post, I discussed what I described as the primary fallacy behind the Objectivi...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Objectivist To Run Cato (Temporarily)

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Successful banker and Ayn Rand Institute board member John Allison IV  has been appointed as the acting head of Cato following a n ugly pub...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 2

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The primary fallacy behind the Objectivist Epistemology. Since human cognition (mostly) operates below the threshold of consciousness, the ...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 1

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Introduction. Now we venture forth into the thorniest reaches of Rand's philosophy: the Objectivist Epistemology. Rand's epistemolo...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Ayn Rand & Human Nature 26

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Human nature and politics. Rand's politics is not entirely free of the contagion of her view of man. Rand's so-called "philoso...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Ayn Rand & Human Nature 25

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Human nature and ethics. Among Rand's more enlightened admirers, there is a tendency to simply ignore Rand's obvious cluelessness a...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Ayn Rand & Human Nature 24

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Human Nature and epistemology. Some Objectivists, particularly of the non-orthodox variety, are willing to admit that Rand's theory of ...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Ayn Rand & Human Nature 23

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Rand's arguments against innate predispositions . As far as I can make out, Rand made two arguments against innate predispositions: (1) ...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Reason Fluffs Atlas 2

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Reason becomes the thinking man's Hello magazine in this new piece devoted to energetically fluffing the Atlas Shrugged 2 movie. Am...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Ayn Rand & Human Nature 22

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Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and human nature. With the threatened second version of Atlas Shrugged beginning production, I finally got around t...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

Doubling Down.

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"Atlas Shrugged Part 2", featuring an all new cast, has started shooting . This time it will work, really.
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Friday, April 06, 2012

Review of Weiss' "Ayn Rand Nation"

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Gary Weiss' new tome, Ayn Rand Nation , looks to be the first critical examination of Rand from the Left that we've seen since Ellis...
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Friday, March 23, 2012

Ayn Rand & Human Nature 21

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Innate components of religion. Objectivism considers religion a mere execrescence of irrationality, a product of wrong premises misintregra...
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Monday, March 05, 2012

Ayn Rand & Human Nature 20

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Rationality within the limits of human nature . Rand regarded "reason" as the supreme virtue: "I am not primarily an advocate...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Ayn Rand & Human Nature 19

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Human nature and "reason." Rand places enormous stress on individual conscious reasoning. "Reason" is her chief moral v...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012

We Just Live In It.

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Noted investigative journalist Gary Weiss , author of 2006's ahead-of-the-curve "Wall St Versus. America" , puts the spotlight...
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