http://www.kurzweilai.net/atlas-shrugged Accelerating Intelligence Tue, 21 May 2013 17:28:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/atlas-shrugged/comment-page-1#comment-14999 Phil Osborn Fri, 11 May 2012 01:19:37 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=115874#comment-14999 Atlas ... is a great starting point for a new intellectual. Whether Rand is right on what issues - philosophical, economic, romantic or political, etc. - is less important for a newcomer to philosophical thought than the epistemological training one gets in the process of reading the novel. Very few people have a clear, consistent, comprehensive personal philosophy. This is what Rand presents, not on faith - which she considers anathema, but thru rigorous and intellectually exciting argument, taking place in contexts where it is both appropriate and sadly lacking in our daily lives. It would be truly unusual for anyone to read this novel and not in some way be changed, generally for the better. Atlas … is a great starting point for a new intellectual. Whether Rand is right on what issues – philosophical, economic, romantic or political, etc. – is less important for a newcomer to philosophical thought than the epistemological training one gets in the process of reading the novel. Very few people have a clear, consistent, comprehensive personal philosophy. This is what Rand presents, not on faith – which she considers anathema, but thru rigorous and intellectually exciting argument, taking place in contexts where it is both appropriate and sadly lacking in our daily lives. It would be truly unusual for anyone to read this novel and not in some way be changed, generally for the better.

]]> http://www.kurzweilai.net/atlas-shrugged/comment-page-1#comment-3159 Who is John Galt? | KurzweilAI Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:26:49 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=115874#comment-3159 [...] AngelicaAtlas Shrugged Part I, the movie, an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1957 objectivist novel Atlas Shrugged, tells the first installment in the story of a dystopian future in which a collectivist society has [...] [...] AngelicaAtlas Shrugged Part I, the movie, an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1957 objectivist novel Atlas Shrugged, tells the first installment in the story of a dystopian future in which a collectivist society has [...]

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