Jeg tror jeg takker for på dette forumene og takker for diskusjonene jeg har hatt med dere. Utgangspunktet mitt var å lære mer om deres livssyn og samfunnssyn som jo i hovedsak er basert objektivismen. Jeg har lært mye om objektivismen og fått bekreftet endel av mine antakelser, samtidig som jeg har fått ny kunnskap om deres syn. Jeg kunne debattert med dere i det uendelige, men hva som står igjen er at dere representerer et radikalt forskjellig samfunnssyn og menneskesyn enn meg. Jeg kunne ønsket meg at dere i fremtiden går kritisk gjennom deres konklusjoner og premisser og i samme slenger anbefaler tre bøker som gjør dette:
Objectivism and the Corruption of Rationality: A Critique of Ayn Rand's Epistemology
av Scott Ryan
“Ayn Rand presented Objectivism as a philosophy of reason. But is it? That is the question Scott Ryan seeks to answer in this careful examination of the Objectivist epistemology and its alleged sufficiency as the philosophical foundation of a free and prosperous commonwealth. Sorting painstakingly through Rand's writings on the subject, Mr. Ryan concludes that the epistemology of Objectivism is incoherent and debases both the concept and the practice of rationality.”
Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature av Greg S Nyquist
“Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature represents a major contribution to a critical understanding of Rand's so-called "Objectivist” ideology. Based on extensive research of Rand's writings, including her journals and letters, the book demonstrates how Objectivism sprung from Rand's romantic and idealistic view of human nature. Rand repeatedly claimed that the goal of her writing was "the projection of an ideal man” and that her philosophy was merely "a necessary means to that end.” Using this insight as an interpretive touchstone, the book proceeds to explain how Rand's views on history, human knowledge, morality, and aesthetics were profoundly influenced by her idolatry of the "ideal man” and where she went wrong in developing her unique but flawed vision of human society.
The Ayn Rand Cult av Jeff Walker
According to this devastating and often heavy-handed critique, Ayn Rand, whose novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged exposed millions to her philosophy of virtuous self-centeredness and capitalist freedom, was an oppressive personality whose Objectivist movement demonstrated all the classic elements of a destructive cult (its messianic leader and its separation of group members from family and friends). Walker presents his subject as an arrogant, dogmatic bully who brooked no criticism and as a repressed narcissist who feared her own emotions and hid behind a glorification of reason. He concludes that Rand was no more than a third-rate pop-novelist of propaganda fiction and that her "vulgar Nietzschean" philosophy's obsessive concern with the overachiever who requires protection via absolutized individual rights contributed to the movement's cultish aspects. Walker also savages self-esteem guru Nathaniel Branden, who was Rand's protege and extramarital lover; their explosive breakup in 1968 pulverized the Objectivist movement, whose contemporary schisms and crosscurrents he ploddingly tracks.
