Quote:
Originally Posted by
Avebury
His thinking is very much like Ayn Rand's and I think they are both :Ti: doms. Ayn Rand should be the stereotype of LSI btw. I don't get where people get LIE for her. Objectivism is basically a theoretical understanding of reality based on a few axioms, once one accepts those axioms, the rest of the points basically follow like in an arborescence. You have the idea of reason, supreme means of understanding the outside world, and once you accept that "reason is man's only absolute", the rest follows. It's a very binary, dualistic way of looking at the world, you have the good and the bad people. It is very white logic thinking, at least when white logic is mixed with E1 average to possibly low levels of mental equilibrium.
The alternative typing for her was SLE-Se, which by VI certainly seems possible.
Quote:
In his essay 'On the Randian Argument' libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick pointed out that Rand's meta-ethical arguments were unsound and didn't resolve the is-ought problem as she'd hoped. Libertarian philosopher Michael Huemer has suggested that her ethics are incoherent. Her arguments for what the chief goal of human life is all use changing definitions constantly and seem to drive towards three incompatible ends rather than the one she said she was driving at.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy argues that her arguments so often fail to support her conclusions that, “It is not surprising, then, that she is either mentioned in passing, or not mentioned at all, in the entries that discuss current philosophical thought about virtue ethics, egoism, rights, libertarianism, or markets.”