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Her basic idea was to make Aristotle’s law of non-contradiction exist independent of time. That is, she wants not only A to equal A, but to have A always equal A. This is wrong for obvious reasons that even the ancients could see. Sure my lamp is a lamp, but when I turn it on it’s not that lamp, or when I smash it it’s no longer that lamp. All of her other ideas flow from this one bad idea.
Most of her ideas on morality are just copied from people like Kant and Locke, she really presented no new ideas other then her sub-par metaphysics witch was an attempt to link the two.
As a philosopher I have no respect for Rand, but I do believe her writings have done alot of good. Atlas Shrugged has been called the most influential book in America (besides the bible) for good reason, the number of lives it’s changed for the better numbers in the millions. I don’t really understand all the hate she has generated. I think alot of pseudo progressives (usually college freshmen-sophomores with no philosophy knowledge) think its some kind of rite of passage.