From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 14:17:31 GMT
Arlo,
I heard that Rand really understood all the better
ideas you are talking about but she just didn't think
her readers were up to that level of understanding yet
and thought only the dullwitted would be interested in
any higher level of understanding.
Just kidding..who would buy that!!
Erin
->
> [Arlo previously]
> To be honest, if in 50 years it is as ignored as
> Rand, then, yes, Platt,
> I'd say the MOQ failed to develop anything
> worthwhile. Although I know
> there is a need there to "blame" some vast "liberal
> conspiracy" for why
> your (and Rand's) ideas are ignored at the Academy,
> but many ideas fail in
> the Academy, and your "left-right" dichotomy is not
> the scale. James and
> Peirce are taught everywhere and held in high
> esteem, are they part of
> "liberalism"? We read Kant, and Plato and Sarte and
> Wittgenstein. Not to
> mention Saussere, Searle, Nietzsche and Aquinas.
> I've had philosophy
> courses where we read Jefferson, Locke and Mill. All
> these all part of the
> "vast liberal conspiracy in the curriculum"? No.
> Just people with much
> better ideas, ideas worth reading and voices worth
> appropriating.
>
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