(August 27, 2021 at 6:53 am)Ahriman Wrote:(August 27, 2021 at 6:46 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Informed people don’t take Ayn Rand seriously.How come? Her philosophy is sound. In fact, it's often cited as a source of inspiration.
Boru
Of course it isn’t ‘sound’. Objectivism has no methodology to it, and it isn’t so much a philosophy as it is Rand picking bits out of other philosophies. It doesn’t even work well as a synthesis.
Simply because people are inspired by a thing doesn’t make that thing ‘good’ in any useful sense.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson