Path: utzoo!hoptoad!well!pan
From: pan@well.UUCP (Philip Nicholls)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: Objectivism? Who he?
Message-ID: <5648@well.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 05:03:08 GMT
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Reply-To: pan@well.UUCP (Philip Nicholls)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <5430005@otter.hple.hp.com> cwp@otter.hple.hp.com (Chris Preist) writes:
>
>By the way, Aristotle may not have written anything, but others have. I found
>out about the trichotomy through the works of Kant, Kierkegaard, Ayer, 
>Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Russell, Popper, Sartre, Haack, Quine, and of
>course, our dear friend Plato. Rand isn't the only philosopher in existance,
>you know! :-)

Yes, but according to Rand, all of these guys are wimps (except Aristotle and
perhaps St. Augustine).  The problem is that most of those folks who are so
big on Rand have not attempted to read any of the above and take Rand's word
that they are full of it.  Rand particularly does Kant an injustice and this
alone made me decide she was the one who was "full of it."

She is also credited with describing Zen Buddism as "...a philosophy of barefoot
savages who scratch at the earth for food."   
-- 
"To ask a question, you must first know most of the answer."
                                     - Robert Sheckley

   pan@well.UUCP (you figure out how to get their).