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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Randroids attack again
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Date: Fri, 16-May-86 12:56:44 EDT
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In article <8605161507.AA14531@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> eyal@wisdom.BITNET (Eyal mozes) writes:

>Well, such a science exists already, in the philosophy of Objectivism.
>If you are interested in a real science of morality, then read the
>works of Ayn Rand; you can start either with her novels, particularly
>Atlas Shrugged (which is both a great novel in its own right and the
>best overall introduction to her philosophy), or with her essay "The
>Objectivist Ethics", reprinted in her book "The Virtue of
>Selfishness".

   Your posting contains some bad philosophy and bad book reviewing, but
no science at all. If you must post this sort of stuff, put it on net.books
and/or net.philosophy where it belongs. Objectivism is no more a science
than Marxism. Your saying otherwise proves you are a fool, at least when
it comes to objectively evaluating Randism.

   I have read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. They are both third-rate
books by a thoroughly mediocre mind, and amusing partly for that reason. But
drivel of the sort Rand spouts can hardly save civilization.

  I have directed followups to net.philosophy. This does not belong on net.sci.

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
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