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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (18681)	8/10/2005 6:09:44 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

The Fountainhead (1943; film, 1949), which became a durable best-seller, depicts its architect-hero as a superman whose egoism and genius prevail over timid traditionalism and social conformism. The Objectivist philosophy embodied in the book, inspired by Nietzsche, held that all real achievement is the product of individual ability and effort, that laissez-faire capitalism is most congenial to the exercise of talent, and that selfishness is a virtue, altruism a vice. Rand's reversal of the traditional Judeo-Christian ethic made her a beacon for an avid and self-renewing cult of libertarian-conservative followers. The allegorical Atlas Shrugged (1957), another perennial best-seller, combines science fiction and a political message. Rand also wrote a number of nonfiction works expounding her beliefs, including For the New Intellectual (1961) and The Virtue of Selfishness (1964), and edited two journals propounding her ideas, The Objectivist (1962-71) and The Ayn Rand Letter (1971-76). americanwriters.org -------- It just sruck me, in a discussion, how did the NeoCon father Strauss and Ayn Rand get along?? Both had this theri stuff with sexuality, morality and great genius Noble Heroes plus the evil, ignorant masses?? PS Ayn Rand picked her artist name after Aino Kallas, an interesting Estonian-Finnish writer, and her last name from Aino's typewriter, model Sperry-Rand. PPS At a minimum, they both struggled with the medieval stuff of "evil lurking in the dark" (although that too is a myth), representing the old belief and (messianic) hope of the "genius elite".. need to do some digging: en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org .

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (18681)	8/10/2005 7:18:25 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 20773

contrasts in master vs. slave morality: In the juncture between normative ethics and descriptive ethics, Nietzsche distinguishes between "master morality" and "slave morality". Although he recognises that not everyone holds either scheme in a clearly delineated fashion without some syncretism, he presents them in contrast to one another. Some of the contrasts in master vs. slave morality: "good" and "bad" interpretations vs. "good" and "evil" interpretations "aristocratic" vs. "part of the 'herd'" determines values independently of predetermined foundations (nature) vs. determines values on predetermined, unquestioned foundations (Christianity). These ideas were elaborated in his book On the Genealogy of Morals in which he also introduced the key concept of ressentiment as the basis for the slave morality. "The revolt of the slave in morals begins in the very principle of ressentiment becoming creative and giving birth to values — a ressentiment experienced by creatures who, deprived as they are of the proper outlet of action are forced to find their compensation in an imaginary revenge. While every aristocratic morality springs from a triumphant affirmation of its own demands, the slave morality says 'no' from the very outset to what is 'outside itself,' 'different from itself,' and 'not itself'; and this 'no' is its creative deed." (On the Genealogy of Morals) en.wikipedia.org However, note: Nietzsche is famous for his rejection of what he calls "slave morality" (which he felt reflected the inverse of the "will to power" and a perversion of useful altruism); Luckily we got our political multiparty, multifaced "sphere" very early on, luckily it still survives.. "Two faces, one coin" ;)