tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190064520141500485.post1448357443521611035..comments2023-07-26T04:20:20.358-07:00Comments on Saint Cynic: Alright...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17771674447306246398noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190064520141500485.post-5721102350470289802010-06-19T01:30:12.343-07:002010-06-19T01:30:12.343-07:00I look forward to hearing what might be found in R...I look forward to hearing what might be found in Rand's books. I have read "Objectivism," but the topic - for obvious reasons - was not well defined, and I myself am not of the desire to read the entirety of her other books just to learn what she alluded to in "Objectivism."<br /><br />Please post page numbers where the actual philosophy of objectivism might be explained. :)LarryGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190064520141500485.post-38219571411826945122010-06-11T16:19:44.370-07:002010-06-11T16:19:44.370-07:00I like this quote from Mark Twain's book, Lett...I like this quote from Mark Twain's book, <i>Letters from the Earth</i>:<br /><br />Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, and at once a great light streamed into their dim heads. They had acquired knowledge. What knowledge -- useful knowledge? No -- merely knowledge that there was such a thing as good, and such a thing as evil, and how to do evil. they couldn't do it before. Therefore all their acts up to this time had been without stain, without blame, without offense.<br /><br />But now they could do evil -- and suffer for it; now they had acquired what the Church calls an invaluable possession, the Moral Sense; that sense which differentiates man from the beast and sets him above the beast. Instead of below the beast -- where one would suppose his proper place would be, since he is always foul-minded and guilty and the beast always clean-minded and innocent. It is like valuing a watch that must go wrong, above a watch that can't.<br /><br />The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion of it and did what he could in his clumsy way to keep his happy Children of the Garden from acquiring it.<br /><br />http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/twainlfe.htmRoberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13448170752365112355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190064520141500485.post-80094136288877824752010-05-29T11:45:11.195-07:002010-05-29T11:45:11.195-07:00Hello Kane,
I'm sure you'll enjoy Ayn Ran...Hello Kane,<br /><br />I'm sure you'll enjoy Ayn Rand's work. She is an excellent writer.<br /><br />I read <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> and <i>Anthem</i> in 1980. Interestingly, her books spurred me on to study philosophy more seriously (and formally), because I found myself inclined to accept her philosophy not on its own intellectual merits but because I liked the fictional characters!<br /><br />I think that fiction is a great popularizer of philosophy, but the heavy philosophical lifting still needs to be done. The formal study of philosophy helped me distinguish the philosophical message from the fictional messengers.<br /><br />Happy reading!<br /><br />Best regards,<br />HendrikHendrik van der Breggenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04149481975577863835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190064520141500485.post-60511087165693722532010-05-28T05:48:33.914-07:002010-05-28T05:48:33.914-07:00I interpret the knowledge of good and evil to talk...I interpret the knowledge of good and evil to talk about experiential knowledge, not reason... <br />although I'm sure that she would say that's just as badjustsomenamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03630507858825391991noreply@blogger.com