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Ayn Rand is an author and commentator whose philosophy has had a big influence on the zrepublican Party, particuksrly Paul Ryan who passes out her book Atlas Shrugged to his staff.
I think Ms. Rand's philosophy is both sophmoric and the logical outcome of a secular society that puts self-interest first. Her Darwinian rugged individualism is the best argument made against straight evolution for a conscious moral being and the fact that it is the belief system of the creationist capitalists is the ultimarpte irony.
Followers of Ayn Rand's philosopy have never left morality level 1, don't do what hurts and until they do they can't
- Follow the teachings of Christ.
- Counter Richard Dawkins radical Darwinism
- Thrive as a society. --Johnny 09:40, 11 December 2016 (EST)Web References https://johnnywunder.info/mywiki/index.php/Ayn Rand
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| Ayn Rand | Ayn Rand is an author and commentator whose philosophy has had a big influence on the zrepublican Party, particuksrly Paul Ryan who passes out her book Atlas Shrugged to his staff. | I think Ms. Rand's philosophy is both sophmoric and the logical outcome of a secular society that puts self-interest first. Her Darwinian rugged individualism is the best argument made against straight evolution for a conscious moral being and the fact that it is the belief system of the creationist capitalists is the ultimarpte irony.
Followers of Ayn Rand's philosopy have never left morality level 1, don't do what hurts and until they do they can't
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| Religion and Philosophy | The reductionist seekers of truth crossed their event horizon a while ago and our inability to follow any nuanced instructions is destroying us. | All who seek to reduce everything to either or yes or no deny complexity and nuance to divide us for their own power and aggrandizement need to now enter the black hole where time and light stop and we're all one. |
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Ayn Rand (/ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, Russian: Али́са Зино́вьевна Розенба́ум; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead.
In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982. Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge, and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism, and rejected altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral, and opposed collectivism and statism as well as anarchism, and instead supported laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system based on recognizing individual rights. In art, Rand promoted romantic realism. She was sharply critical of most philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her, except for Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and classical liberals.
Literary critics received Rand's fiction with mixed reviews, and academia generally ignored or rejected her philosophy, though academic interest has increased in recent decades. The Objectivist movement attempts to spread her ideas, both to the public and in academic settings. She has been a significant influence among libertarians and American conservatives....more[1]