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After the Nietzsche phase, this seems to be the next stop:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)
Of course some people never make it past Nietzsche. And instead of using his teaching as a stepping stone, seem comfortable lying in the philosophical bed he made. But they're easy enough to spot - in fact they're impossible to miss.
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objectivism is one of the most specious "philosophies" that exist. nietzsche is hardly a stepping stone, it's more realistic to say that rand is a perverse, simplistic interpretation of some of what nietzsche said.