Three Things Everyone Needs To Know About The Apple Antitrust Case

http://www.forbes.com/sites/objectivi... Don Watkins discusses his and Yaron Brook's latest Forbes.com column, "Three Things Everyone Needs To Know About the Apple Antitrust Case."

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[Patrick Acton]

Charge too little?

Predatory pricing

Charge too much?

Profiteering

Charge the same as everyone else?

Colluding/price fixing

""There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them." Ayn Rand

[TheRedAnomaly]

Government is the problem! Always has been. Always will be. END ALL GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BrotherWoody1]

Man, don't even try. . .you aren't even close. Please take an introductory philosophy course, especially before dipping into a political philosopher like Ayn Rand. I'll end this dialogue at this point. Good luck.

[TeaParty1776]

No.

Reality is real and man must act accordingly to live well. Reality will not vanish. Kant rejected reality for emotion.

[BrotherWoody1]

Don't we all?

Metaphysics? Okay, Tea Partier, start doing metaphysics. Also, don't forget a metaphysician that Randians would rather not deal with: Kant.

All of Western metaphysics is in your court & it's your ball.

[TeaParty1776]

You accept capitalism within the limit of your emotions. Egoism is based on life, not emotion. And man's life requires reason as guide to egoism. Objectivism is basically metaphysics, not pol phil.

[Tas von Gleichen]

Sad to see this happening.

[BrotherWoody1]

I don't reject capitalism, although your professor may have been both a dumb American & a dumb Pragmatist. Also, Rand prided herself on her philosophical roots in designing Objectivism. Without them, there's no Objectivism. I assume that you do place Objectivism under the discipline of poltical philosophy, right? Nevertheless, it's the area of her ethics where you'll find her fatal flaw. Egoism demands that she uses her ends to justify her means. Then, a justly ordered society is impossible.

[TeaParty1776]

Weaver is a pragmatist, thus your rejection of objectivity and capitalism. Pragmatists consider an idea's short-term effects w/o objectivity. I studied under a philosopher of American Pragmatism. Dumb as a doorknob. You provide not even a hint of why selfishness is allegedly bad or why her theory of concepts allegedly fails. There is no intellectual opposition to Objectivism. Mainstream philosophy is not even respectfully false. Its conceptual disintegration.

[arcanekrusader]

Maybe, can't say I've looked into it much.

[BrotherWoody1]

We're talking past each other. As you indicated, ideas have consequences (R. Weaver) & my understanding of the Western political phil. canon & tradition severely undermines the efficacy & sustainability of Egoism or Objectivism as a phil. of her novelistic visions, post Atlas. In my view, she wasn't successful in reconciling the perennial dichotomy of the One & the Many that's imperative in good political phil. Egoism & enlightened self interest are incommensurable categories that Rand blurred.