Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 14:50:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Grossman <SGROSSMAN-AT-umassd.edu> Subject: Re: "Objectivism" Date: Sun, 21 Aug 1994 23:23:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex Trotter <uburoi-AT-panix.com> Subject: "Objectivism" >The only person I can think of who was as gung ho for objective >epistemology as Ayn Rand was...V.I. Lenin. Traditional objectivity (from Plato, Aristotle): ideas in reality revealed to passive mind. Marx, being a Kantian, basically held that ideas were subjective to active mind whose activity distorted reality. Marx simply modified Kantian subjectivity with economics (as Nazis did with race). Rand's radical objectivity: ideas are reality as volitionally and logically processed by active mind whose activity is method of knowing reality. >Leninism and Libertarianism--as different as Coke and Pepsi. As similar as two sodas: both reject reason as absolute. >Oppose one ideology with another? Why bother? Hang all ideologies! Ideology is human cognitive need of survival. Even Marx knew this. ------------------
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