From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 20:45:21 GMT
When I was in college a bunch of libertarians took over the school newspaper
and filled it with counter-counter cultural rubbish. Someone, I always
suspected from the editorial staff, kept sneaking out at night and changing
the sign in front of the Philosophy building to Ayn Rand Hall.
Case
[Erin]
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!!
> [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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