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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (28099)2/22/2010 5:38:32 PM
From: Greg or e  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
I took the quote at face value. I can see that her assertion is just that, and is full of holes. Apparently I am not alone.

"One example of critical attention paid to Rand by an analytic philosopher is the essay "On the Randian Argument" by Harvard University's Robert Nozick, which appears in his Socratic Puzzles. Nozick's own libertarian political conclusions are similar to Rand's, but his essay is critical of her argument. He argues that her solution to David Hume's famous is-ought problem is unsatisfactory: she asserts that preserving one's own life is objectively the highest value because it makes all other values possible, but Nozick believes she still needs to explain why a person could not rationally prefer the state of eventually dying and having no values. Thus, he argues, her attempt to deduce the morality of selfishness is essentially an instance of begging the question. Nevertheless, Nozick respected Rand as an author and noted that he found her books enjoyable and thought-provoking."
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