July 16, 2014
Rand on Kant: Let’s Use This as a Teaching Moment
In “Faith and Force,” Rand is not so nice to Kant: What Kant propounded was full, total, abject selflessness: he held that an action is moral only if you perform…
Posts filed under Ayn Rand
July 16, 2014
Craig Biddle’s Chart on Essential Moral Theories; Objectivist Strawmen
Do Objectivists actually believe all non-Objectivist philosophers are stupid and evil? This showed up on my Facebook feed just now. From The Objective Standard blog, an Objectivist website, here’s a list…
May 13, 2014
Ayn Rand Thinks Rich People are Evil
Well a good number of them anyway. Allow me to explain… In response to a recent Facebook status of mine that quoted Rand, one commenter expressed his surprise that someone associated…
April 15, 2014
Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights – A Critique
It usually begins with Ayn Rand, wrote Jerome Tuccille back in 1972, and so it did with me. My first exposure to libertarianism was Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, and it didn’t take long…
August 24, 2012
Paul Ryan: Randian or Neocon?
I comment on the Oxford University Press blog here. Excerpt: Are we just one heart attack or gunshot away from an Ayn Rand presidency? No. As the saying goes, actions…
April 15, 2011
A Second Pass at Ayn Rand
I took down my original post. It was misleading and was getting hostile responses. People assumed I’m some big Ayn Rand fan and was whining that she didn’t get the…