/lit/ - Literature

Is it not true that people are motivated by their self-interest? All I ever hear are insults against her and her prose abilities.

Why do people on /lit/ hate Ayn Rand so much yet love max stirner?

Explain to me what her philosophy is all about so that I can hate her too .

I can’t bring myself to care about another human being as anything more than a sextoy. Books for this feel?

*teleports behind you*
Pshhh, nothing personell...
Poorfag...

Why is Objectivism often seen in a negative light? Help me Anons.

Based and Redpilled

Why is she so universally hated?

Rand begins her account of consciousness by dividing it into three stages: Sensation, perception, and conception. Sensation is an automatic reaction of a sense organ from the outside world. Perception is a group of sensations retained by a living organism and integrated by its brain into an awareness of “entities,” or “things.” Conception is a “mental integration of two or more concretes … isolated by a process of abstraction and united by means of a specific definition.”

Unlike Hume, Rand does not equate concepts with “ideas” that are faded memories of impressions. Instead, she uses this term to denote a group of objects viewed as belonging together, such as “human being,” “car,” “tree,” “building,” etc.

Again unlike Hume, Rand also distinguishes sensations from perceptions. In Rand’s view, a white square is not a “complex impression” that can be broken down into simple impressions. Instead, it is an “entity”; a complete thing perceived by us as a whole. Although we can speculate philosophically that there must have been a time when this white square would have appeared simply as a blob of color and shape (i.e. as a sensation), this is a conceptual discovery that should be not be used to attack the very validity of perception itself.

I unironically love her books.

>author creates a fictional scenario to promote a philosophical view

how much cook did she suck in her life?

Why is her work so disliked?

Throughout my entire BA in Philosophy program I only heard her name mentioned in the most negative contexts.

Why do libtards hate Ayn Rand? Seriously, all they ever say is "hurr durr she lived on welfare," but they never actually refute her

I know /lit/ hates her, but what do I need to read besides fountainhead/atlas shrugged to be able to give a fair critique of objectivism?

>rich pepo good n sheiiit

>>11142331
>The desire for a fair exchange
can just be reduced down to "rational self-interest" if you're willing to allow subjective determination of what is fair or not. Why not consider anything that is good for me to be "fair" and anything that harms me to be "unfair", if fairness is subjectively determined? At which point, if I have no obligation to treat others in any certain way other than the manner in which I want to treat them, whence comes morality?
You made an attempt, friend.