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To: Lane3 who wrote (7966)	12/23/2005 9:46:41 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 541851

Self-interest is natural where altruism is culturally indoctrinated Altruism is most certainly an evolutionary trait, and therefore quite natural. Part of the reason I think most of Ayn's epistomology is hogwash it that it was developed without a good understanding of mental processes, or modern biology for that matter. She was convinced that there was a totally different process for human minds vs. animal minds. Her entire fascination with rational thought is predicated on this. We still have a long ways to go, but most of what was thought about mental activity in 1950 is not going to be correct in 2050. Regarding my comment on Ayn as a philosophical antidote per Wienberg, I found this in Wikipedia under Objectivism: Rand regarded her philosophical efforts as the beginning of the correction of a deeply troubled world, and she believed that the world has gotten into its present troubled state largely through the uncritical acceptance, by both intellectuals and others, of traditional philosophy. I nearly died laughing!