Ayn Rand and the "New Intellectual" (1/3)

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Event Date: May 15, 1961

In this interview, which took place upon publication of For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand discusses: the nature of cultural leadership; the influence of Plato, Aquinas and Kant; the creeping mysticism infecting science; and the lengthy process by which individuals become the "new intellectuals" of tomorrow.

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Wikipedia Article on Ayn Rand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

Wikipedia Article on Objectivism (the philosophy of Ayn Rand): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_%28Ayn_Rand%29

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[GalneGunnarTV]

@EdwardsComment

You are incorrect!

An individuals personal happiness is never contingent on the happiness of another human being.

Ayn rand is right, and you are wrong.

[erikal85]

"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism" - Ayn Rand

I love the videos, but i can't see how a supporter of "Sverige demokraterna" could like or agree with AR. The problem isn't immigration, it's taxes and welfare...

[AnubisEye009]

I recommend all of you study and read Aristotle. That's where she lays much of her credit, and will lead to greater understanding.

[TruthWithinRange]

I found the questions asked really allowed Ayn Rand to paint a good pictures of her veiws.

[91Tribual]

fantastisk kvinna

[shamayaify]

@Fray2221 That's a good point, most of her outlook was based solely in romanticism for materialism and the men who can attain or create new materials. My experience with hardcore Rand fans is they have little knowledge of anybody other than her in the field of philosophy. Once people actually read somebody else like Kant or Spinoza, they will put Rand in her place as more of a public intellectual who liked to rant. She reminds me a lot of Nietzsche because of her ranting style.

[Fray2221]

@shamayaify I tell everyone I meet who I think is a little bit too into Ayn Rand to read 'Materialism and Empirio-Criticism' by Vladimir Lenin. The first time I read that book I was simply shocked by how much of her philosophy, at least in terms of metaphysics, that Rand had borrowed wholesale from Marxist dialectical materialism, up to and including Lenin's attacks on subjectivism and Kant's metaphysics.

[shamayaify]

@Fray2221 I agree, Ayn Rand was a good novelist, but took a major leap into philosophy without properly forming logical argumentation that provided solid truth functions in each premise and which coherently followed one another. If she didn't misrepresent Hume and Kant so bad, then I probably wouldn't mind her philosophy so much. I consider Kant to be a rationalist because he fused the traditional rationalist with scientific empiricism against Hume who was a skeptic empiricist.

[Fray2221]

@shamayaify I wouldn't describe Kant as a rationalist however. Kant had attempted to discover the limits of pure reason in uncovering objective truths.

Kant was in fact a major voice of the scientific enlightenment. His philosophy was a defense of scientific empiricism against those philosophers and theologians who had turned away from the world in favor of pure contemplation.

Much of Kantian ethics and metaphysics is really quite consistent with objectivism.

[Fray2221]

@shamayaify I have a lot a respect for Rand, she was a brilliant individual with a profound understanding of politics. But yes, her comments on Kant and a few other modern philosophers are simply embarrassing. Rand simply didn't understand that being a philosopher is a full time profession. You can't be a full time political commentator, novelist, and cult leader and still find some spare time to refute the greatest philosophers of age.

[monjiaitaly]

and that kind of man she is talking about today is Ron Paul 2012.