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09-13-2007, 09:04 PM
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Re: Mises and \"New Atheism\"
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One of my big gripes with the new brand of atheism championed by Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens is that they don't offer an alternative. They seem to simply say, "don't believe in God, it's dumb." [/ QUOTE ] The alternative is err... God. 
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09-13-2007, 09:10 PM
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Re: Mises and \"New Atheism\"
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[ QUOTE ] One of my big gripes with the new brand of atheism championed by Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens is that they don't offer an alternative. They seem to simply say, "don't believe in God, it's dumb." [/ QUOTE ] The alternative is err... God. [/ QUOTE ] Objectivism?
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#6
09-14-2007, 12:25 PM
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Re: Mises and \"New Atheism\"
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[ QUOTE ] Subjectivist? [/ QUOTE ] Ayn Rand is to philosophy as the Spice Girls are to music. Do you get it now? [/ QUOTE ] So you're saying Ayn Rand, if alive today, would starve herself, get bad implants, and marry a football star?
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#7
09-14-2007, 12:32 PM
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Re: Mises and \"New Atheism\"
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Subjectivist? [/ QUOTE ] Ayn Rand is to philosophy as the Spice Girls are to music. Do you get it now? [/ QUOTE ] So you're saying Ayn Rand, if alive today, would starve herself, get bad implants, and p-whip a football star and then cheat on him repeatedly ? [/ QUOTE ]
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#9
09-15-2007, 06:29 AM
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Re: Mises and \"New Atheism\"
Misfire,
obviously, I am not making an argument. I am asserting that Ayn Rand was not a philosopher. 1. She is not smart. 2. NOTHING she wrote was original 3. She fundamentally misunderstood Kant, Nietzsche, and others. 4. She had a poor knowledge of philosophy, history, economics, and politics, but proclaimed herself an authority on all those subjects. 5. Her literary style is god awful. There are NO serious literatry critics who would give a positive review of any of her works. etc etc etc
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#10
09-15-2007, 07:52 AM
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Re: Mises and \"New Atheism\"
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Misfire, obviously, I am not making an argument. I am asserting that Ayn Rand was not a philosopher. 1. She is not smart. 2. NOTHING she wrote was original 3. She fundamentally misunderstood Kant, Nietzsche, and others. 4. She had a poor knowledge of philosophy, history, economics, and politics, but proclaimed herself an authority on all those subjects. 5. Her literary style is god awful. There are NO serious literatry critics who would give a positive review of any of her works. etc etc etc [/ QUOTE ] Surely the above just qualifies her as being, in your opinion, a bad philosopher as opposed to not being a philosopher at all.
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