/lit/ - Literature

[Marta Aguilar No.7875510]

>Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (rational self-interest), that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally.

[Tony Francis No.7875514]

>>7875510
For fucks sake lit truly is being invaded by pol his and sci, fuck off already.

[Pat Wang No.7875546]

Why is she wrong?

[Caroline Abbott No.7875561]

>>7875514
t. Tony Francis

[Rita Cordova No.7875724]

>>7875546
Spooks, spooks, and more spooks. It's a veritable haunted house of an ideology.

[Hugh Yang No.7875729]

>>7875514

She's a novelist, dumb dumb.

[Melvin Carlson No.7875746]

>>7875729
And a teenager trash one as well

[Sylvester Reed No.7875790]

>>7875746

Who are you, again?

Oh, I remember - an unpublished nobody read only by zhir mother.

[Florence Bradford No.7875794]

>>7875790
Wew the invasion really is here, no one regular here is retarded enough to imply that being read implies quality.
Ps
I don't write so zine mother can't read me

[Georgia Moreno No.7875806]

>>7875794

I'm regular enough to know that dismissing an author's work as "teenager trash" and then trying to mic drop is poor form. And not just here, bub.

[Frankie Long No.7875813]

>>7875729
>Ayn Rand
>A novelist

Try again, anon, start with entry literature

[Nicolas Weeks No.7875817]

>>7875510
lmao

[Jason Ellis No.7875823]

>>7875510

I thought that was a great description. Am I stupid?

no

[Brandy Gardner No.7875853]

I don't know how there are reputable professors of philosophy who subscribe to Objectivism (Onkhar Ghate, Leonard Peikoff, Tara Smith).

Like seriously the leading professor of philosophy at UT Austin is an Objectivist.

Wtf

[Viola Howell No.7875900]

>>7875813
>>>7875729 (You)
>>Ayn Rand
>>A novelist
>Try again, anon, start with entry literature

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[Edith Sims No.7875912]

>>7875510
>>7875546
>we have direct access to objective reality

I Kant believe this claim is founded in anything but "it would be nice if our sense perceptions were isomorphic with noumenal reality"

Rand had some interesting points in her political philosophy but the second she tries to talk about metaphysics/epistemology she immediately proves she knows nothing of actual philosophy.

[Randy Simpson No.7875943]

>>7875912
>Rand had some interesting points in her political philosophy
>that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (rational self-interest), that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism
I think it's fair to say she also immediately proved she knew nothing about a lot of things.

[Ramon Richards No.7876049]

>>7875546
She thinks people can be free under laissez-faire capitalism, which is historically wrong.

[Mable Simon No.7876167]

>>7875510
It's like a slaughterhouse for philosophical concepts.

[Michele Henson No.7876599]

>>7876049
pin point me to the historical event where a laissez-faire capitalistic state governed.

[Jonathan Austin No.7876614]

>>7875912
Her political philosophy wasn't so hot either, Edith.

[Beverly Waller No.7876621]

When did all these names appear?

[Melba Fritz No.7877514]

>>7876599
United States, 1776 - 1913.

[Marie Riggs No.7877539]

>>7875510
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ84JkYDa3U
O B J E C T I V E L Y
T H E
B E S T
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ84JkYDa3U

[Dwight Gilmore No.7877550]

>>7875912
Kant aka Plato aka "There's like, something beyond reality that only I can see, mannnn! That's why I'm justified in running a tyrannical state, exerting totalitarian control over all facets of society, and censoring information as well as filling the peoples' heads with outright lies."
Plato was a filthy Christian papist before Christian papists.

As soon as you accept that the real world is all that matters, it's a short jump to "Where's my fucking money, man?"

[Raul Ferguson No.7877558]

>>7877550
kill yourself

[Caleb Barker No.7877566]

>>7875510
I identify as a capitalist because of Rand.

[Anna Holland No.7877567]

>>7877550
>ooga ooga booga i'm a filthy stinky caveman