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Why did she seethe so much at Kant and Plato?

>> No.22917728

>>22917671
>author of caffeine free libertarianism
>gets angry at actual philosophers

>> No.22917742
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>>22917671

>> No.22917845

>>22917742
Didn't kings do that also?
King economics

>> No.22917867

>>22917671
Because she was too stupid to understand WHY Kantian philosophy sucks, and too stupid for Plato in general. The only ideas she has in common with them are garbage ethics and the fetishization of caste systems.

>> No.22917886

>Life is the ultimate standard of value
>Smokes, shortening her lifespan
what a retard lmao

>> No.22918624

AYN RAND WAS AN ARISTOTELIAN REALIST; PLATO, AND KANT, WERE IDEALISTS.

>> No.22918630

>>22917867
You’re honestly probably too stupid to explain why Kantian metaphysics is bad as well and just repeating things you’ve heard on a podcast. You might consider killing yourself because you sound like a big faggot

>> No.22918859

https://zerocontradictions.net/misc/critiquing-ayn-rands-objectivism
https://thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-case-against-randian-objectivism.html

>> No.22918912

>>22918859
TL;DR: Seething kantians and marxists.

>> No.22918948

>>22918912
check out "on the randian argument" by robert nozick and "why i'm not an objectivist" by michael huemer

>> No.22919149

This hoe literally just wrote her own personal erotica novels and then pretended it was a philosophy lol

>> No.22919158

>>22917671
What philosophers did she actually like? She seethed about tons of them but who did she appreciate?

>> No.22919159

>>22919149
That's literally all woman "philosophy"

>> No.22919166

>>22918859
Lost me at axioms
>contradicting yourself doesn’t matter because nothing is true anyway chud
Lol

>> No.22919169

>>22919149
She is at least based compared to other female authors in that her male characters aren’t fags that a man cannot relate to at all

>> No.22919175

>>22917671
Aryan-Jewish feud going back thousands of years

>> No.22919540

>>22919158
She sucked Aristotle's dick and had at least a grudging respect for Thomas Aquinas

>> No.22919545

>>22917886
She gave up smoking when she was convinced of its harmful effects

>> No.22920227

>>22918630
Strike a nerve? Enjoy seething in the eighteenth century with an incoherent theory of knowledge that your childishness is no short of exposing.

>> No.22920338

>>22917671
She was autistic and didn't feel empathy

>> No.22920354

>>22917728
>caffeine free libertarianism
What does this mean and whats caffeine induced libertarianism mean?

>> No.22920373

>>22917671
Because Kant and Plato were collectivists in their own ways while she was an individualist in her own way.

>> No.22920486

>>22919158
Aristotle, also secretly Nietzsche.

>> No.22920699

>>22917671
You are now aware that there are hot booba versions of Ayn Rand walking the earth today

>> No.22920703

>>22917671
she was smarter than plato and not OCD like kant

>> No.22921504

>>22920703
Kant talked in a circle throughout his ‘critique’. He could have spewed all the same bullshit for like 200-300 pages less.

>> No.22921618

>>22917671
is that Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum?

>> No.22921644

>>22920699
No there are not. For a woman to be turn out that, she has to be quite intelligent but utterly unufuckable.