Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!jeff From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism Message-ID: <1595@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 19 Jan 90 15:35:02 GMT References: <1990Jan13.140242.14111@twwells.com> <9702@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 17 In article jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes: >In article <9702@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes: >> If anything, this should be soc.politics.objectivism. >> 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. >Yes, Objectivism has a political component ... but it has much, >much, more. New! Improved! Whiter whites! More colorful colors! >I would ask that you read some of Rand's non-political works and >then rethink your assessment. I've read some, and I'm inclined to agree with Tim. Perhaps it's just that Tim just has a broader notion of "political" than you do.