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6261886 No.6261886 [Reply] [Original]

Is Rand dismissed as a philosopher because she makes the common plebeian feel insecure and tiny?

>inb4 randroid

>> No.6261906

>>6261886

No, she's dismissed as a philosopher because her philosophy is overly simplistic and reeks of her own victim complex as a soviet political refugee.

>> No.6261907

>>6261886
She isn't a Marxist, so the board considers her a shite. There I just saved you a bunch of time.

>> No.6261911

randroid

>> No.6261913

>>6261886
Probably all the rape fantasies.

That and the complete absence of philosophical contribution.

>> No.6261916

>>6261907
I am not a Marxist yet I deplore Rand's attempt at giving a philosophical foundation to the worst, most selfish and corrupt form of capitalism, also her metaphysical views were puerile at best, and her prose style was dreadful.

>> No.6261922

>>6261886
for some reason everyone here is really negatively predisposed towards selfish philosophies

dont know why, seems pretty inconsistent to me

>> No.6261928

>>6261922
>for some reason everyone here is really negatively predisposed towards selfish philosophies

no, everyone loves stirner

objectivism is just retarded

>> No.6261937

>>6261913
>he thinks placing altruism before ego makes him superior

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6261961

>>6261907

You do realize that there are plenty of people on the right who find Rand's writing to be repulsive, right?

William Buckley was one of her biggest critics. He green-lit the most negative review of Atlas Shrugged the week it was released:

”I find it a remarkably silly book. It is certainly a bumptious one. Its story is preposterous...Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other book in which a tone of overriding arrogance was so implacably sustained. Its shrillness is without reprieve. Its dogmatism is without appeal.”

He pretty much thought that Rand was a talentless and godless fool. I'm a conservative myself and I can't stand her.

>> No.6261988

even other small government, free market libertarian philosophers (like nozick) think that she is largely incompetent as a philosopher. for example: http://www.scribd.com/doc/102657523/On-the-Randian-Argument-Nozick#scribd

>> No.6262099

>>6261961
>I'm a conservative myself and I can't stand her.
You're a paleoconservative. The good kind.