(January 5, 2014 at 2:51 am)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Ayn Rand; really man? Phony, arrogant, dolt, bad philosopher, yadayada. Point is, she was a turd. I mean, putting 'reason' as the descriptor of your epistemology is like putting your reason for working to 'get money'; no shit, in other words, tells you nothing of substance (which Rand's works lacked anyway).
/rant
Rand certainly was not a good philosopher by any means but reason is a perfectly good epistimology, rather than revelation for instance. When Rand used 'reason' she meant by rational inquiry based on observation.
Whilst I certainly do not follows rands beliefs I find the ranting by leftists who object not to here ability at Philosophy but to her Freemarket policies boring in the extreme, especially when they subscribe to such absurd politics as many do themselves.
