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Originally posted by VirtuMike
Atlas Shrugged is the second best book I have ever read.
Not including the scrolls...
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Second best? Which book do you consider the best you ever read then?
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Originally posted by stereolab
i liked The Fountainhead. But the greatest novelist of all time is Dostoevsky.
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I like Dostoevsky, but I have to disagree with you on this one. Brecht, Kafka, Sartre, Camus, Wilde and Mann all either equal or surpass Dostoevsky in my opinion. That's not to say he's not a genius, because quite obviously, he is.
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Originally posted by 2HousePlague
Ayn Rand is a self-important, whiny bitch, whose great contribution to modern philosophy was "Wah, wah, I'm the center of the universe, and morality=serving me."
Don't bother.
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You can't really read Rand as a serious philosopher. Her idea that reason is objective is quite obviously flawed.
What makes her interesting are her outspoken position and her passion for the subject, as well as the clear break she makes with traditional modernist humanism.
If you look at the philosophical side of her argument, though, I think replacing her objectivist framework with a Nietzschean, mainly aesthetical one would yield much better results. An evolutionary relativistic approach might also work, maybe.
Thepoint is, you shouldn't read her as a philosopher, but as someone with an interesting, different view on life.