explain why she's so terrible
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Explain why she's so terrible
Xavier Martin
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Logan Thompson
Reality isn't objective
Luke Robinson
her books aren't very well written
i can live with having a philosophy crammed down my throat if it's an entertaining read, but her books are bit boring
Evan Kelly
Well, that's one opinion....
Matthew Stewart
The fundamental mistake is that she thinks the individual is the smallest unit of society.
She's wrong. The smallest, indivisible unit of society is the relationship between two individuals. This ugly mistake goes on to distort her every thought.
William Lee
I thought atlas shrugged was all right as far as writing, but the fountainhead is very poor.
Josiah Campbell
Simplified, to the point of distortion and misunderstanding, Nietzsche and Aristotle, whom she claims are her primary influences. Same with Kant, whom she claims is her primary antagonist. Prose is unpleasant. Ideas are banal. Not a literary objection, but her personal life was a mess and she positioned herself as a cult leader. Arguably responsible for the banking crisis of 2008 (Greenspan was one of her devoted acolytes.)
And:
Even if reality were objective, calling your philosophy "objectivism" makes you sound like an idiot. Even the logical positivists called their movement "logical positivism" and not "Truth-Correctness."
Juan Collins
A philosophy that seems to contradict itself fundamentally on many levels and falls apart under scrutiny
No sense of prose or flow
Matthew Bailey
I always took "objectivism" to mean to have objective in your life
Tyler Harris
She's like every other analytic philosopher in that she made a mistake with her premises in order to arrive at the conclusion she already believed in.