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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: mindwalking buddhists, oh
- In-Reply-To: betsy@quake.sylmar.ca.us's message of 2 Jan 93 00:14:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.93Jan3135820@bugs.sics.se>
- Sender: news@sics.se
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- References: <1993Jan1.4280.4181@dosgate> <Bu4PwB2w165w@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:58:20 GMT
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- In article <Bu4PwB2w165w@quake.sylmar.ca.us> betsy@quake.sylmar.ca.us
- (Betsy Speicher) writes:
-
- >So far, they have received _several_hundred_ orders.
-
- What conclusion do you draw from this? I'm not at all sure myself what it
- tells us about philosophy in the US. How would the same people react to an
- invitation to get free copies of the works of von Daniken?
-
- > Ayn Rand's _Atlas_
- >_Shrugged_ came in second only to _The_Bible_.
-
- This is appropriate enough in that conversion to Objectivism through
- reading Atlas Shrugged is much like a religious conversion for many
- young people. It doesn't tell us a great deal about Rand as a philosopher,
- though.
-
- >P.S. I find Stephen Grossman to be a major pain, as do most of my
- >Objectivist friends who have encountered him.
-
- I think that what is chiefly wrong with Grossman is that he insufficiently
- emphasizes the existence of existence. I've put this to him in no uncertain
- terms, but he merely evades the issue.
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-