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« on: March 01, 2009, 02:55:52 PM »

What exactly is the problem with Nietzsche?

I don't particularly have a "least favorite", it's interesting to read their work. If I had to go with one I disagree most with, I might pick Hobbes. I'd go with Rand, but she wasn't a philosopher.
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« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2009, 06:21:41 PM »

And Gully, if you don't count Ayn Rand as a philosopher, then you shouldn't count any other 20th century continental philosopher.

What makes you think she even got close to analytical philosophy to compare her with them? Ayn Rand's thought is ideology with a mask of rigor.
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Earth
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« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2009, 11:33:56 AM »

And Gully, if you don't count Ayn Rand as a philosopher, then you shouldn't count any other 20th century continental philosopher.

What makes you think she even got close to analytical philosophy to compare her with them? Ayn Rand's thought is ideology with a mask of rigor.

Oh I don't think she's close at all. She's about on the level of continental philosophers, whose philosophy is also ideology with a mask of rigor.

Though even analytical philosophers can suffer from this occasionally, view Rawls.

Who exactly are we talking about in regards to ideology?

In Rawls' defense, he's nowhere near as hardline as Rand was.
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