Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hoptoad!tim From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism Message-ID: <9724@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 17 Jan 90 20:01:07 GMT References: <1990Jan13.140242.14111@twwells.com> <9702@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco Lines: 31 In article <9702@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes: >> Rand's work has never been philosophy, despite the claims of a few >> people who don't read philosophy. It has always been political in >> nature. In article jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes: >I hate to sound harsh, but this is 100% wrong. It's like saying >that baseball has no physical component because, as Yogi B. put >it, "90% of baseball is half mental". No, it's more like saying that baseball is not a branch of physics. The fact that balls follow ballistic trajectories doesn't make it physics. >I would ask that you read some of Rand's non-political works and >then rethink your assessment. I have -- or rather, I've tried. "Crackpot" springs to mind. Rand's "philosophy" is nothing of the kind; even less is it psychology. It aspires to be both, but merely erects a nonsensical terminology utterly devoid of empirical basis and calls that "wisdom". I suggest that *you* read some philosophy before you try to gain admission to its ranks. Flame away; anything you say will likely have expired before I get back from an unfortunate sojourn to the opposite coast. -- Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com "I've been called an evil genius by cities of assholes... but I know who these people are! And they're on my list!" -- Robert Crumb