Comment Re:Ethics and Morality (Score 1) 327
Well, regarding beauty and love, IMHO she covers it pretty well in The Romantic Manifesto and Virtue of Selfishness respectively. In my understanding, love also exists with ultimately selfish purposes, even in the most romantic kind of surrender you can imagine. Art would also have purpose, no matter how hard an artist tries not to admit it (even if someone says it's purpose is to not have one :)
About lifestyle, egoism would be just an acknowledgement of a fact regarding human nature, altruists are just people who still inevitably act according to egoistic purposes but profess the contrary, and the consequences of such denial can be devastating. If you think being honest in understanding one's own purpose (i.e. being an egoist) can have bad results, I'd say you could be right given the fact our society is saturated with altruism in many levels. IWO, being honest in a dishonest society can be harmful! heh :) The ideal of honesty can seem something too out of reach, I understand, but I have trouble accepting an alternative to that and its consequences.
Undoubtedly, Rand was a pioneer, and as such, IMHO, is entitled a right to commit mistakes such as overlooking details or treating complex subjects without enough strictness, but that is also because she's a philosopher, someone usually focused in essentials (generalities are always more prone to error). Despite that, I take her work as base for my own philosophical interpretations and use what I believe was essential to her thinking, which was finding rational and consistent interpretations to things, to solve any issue she failed to answer or consider.
Ok, uh.. now I forgot what Carmack had to do with all this. heh
Dan 'Neurobasher' Gomes
About lifestyle, egoism would be just an acknowledgement of a fact regarding human nature, altruists are just people who still inevitably act according to egoistic purposes but profess the contrary, and the consequences of such denial can be devastating. If you think being honest in understanding one's own purpose (i.e. being an egoist) can have bad results, I'd say you could be right given the fact our society is saturated with altruism in many levels. IWO, being honest in a dishonest society can be harmful! heh
Undoubtedly, Rand was a pioneer, and as such, IMHO, is entitled a right to commit mistakes such as overlooking details or treating complex subjects without enough strictness, but that is also because she's a philosopher, someone usually focused in essentials (generalities are always more prone to error). Despite that, I take her work as base for my own philosophical interpretations and use what I believe was essential to her thinking, which was finding rational and consistent interpretations to things, to solve any issue she failed to answer or consider.
Ok, uh.. now I forgot what Carmack had to do with all this. heh
Dan 'Neurobasher' Gomes
