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Atlas Trap
Sunday, July 24th, 2011
Would any of you consider Ayn Rand to be a real philosopher?
I know at least 15 PhD-level educated professional philosophers who do NOT consider Ayn Rand (book: Atlas Shrugged, etc.) to be an actual philosopher. They tend to view her as a pop-culture phenomenon of the 1950s-60s.
Though now there are more and more female philosophers in the world, why do you think she has this low status among university professors? Was her book just clap-trap as it was mentioned in its early reviews? Thanks for your opinions.
The very fact that 50 years after the publication of “Atlas Shrugged” people still ask the same question shows the enduring nature of her ideas. She refined Aristotle, and brought him into the 20th Century. No one ever accused Thomas Aquinas of “not being a philosopher” when he brought Aristotle into the 13th century.
To quote Aristotle: “The disease afflicting the modern world is above all a disease of the intellect. It began in the mind and has by now penetrated to its very roots. Is it surprising then that the world should seem to us shrouded in darkness?”
Rand recognized this in the fashion of Aristotle, not in the fashion of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, who all followed Plato, which is why she is disdained.
But you will find, if you look, that the single biggest philosophical factor in Washington politics that prevents us from going totally socialistic is the large number of Objectivist think-tankers, including the Cato Institute, the Objecitivst Center, The Atlas Society, etc.
When you impugne Rand, you impugne Aristotle and Aquinas as well, because she did nothing more than give them back to us after a long period of intellectual sleep by the Rationalistst and the Empiricists. She knocked their head together and said said each was only half right. She demonstrated where each was incorrect, and defended them where they were correct.
And if Atlas Shrugged stands alone as the great depiction of the horrors of Marxism on intellectual thinking, then thank god it has lasted 50 years–so far.
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