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If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me thomas aquinas. don't give me ayn rand.
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If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me thomas aquinas. don't give me ayn rand.
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I reject her [ayn rand's] philosophy. it's an atheist philosophy. it reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. if somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me thomas aquinas. don't give me ayn rand.
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And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that ayn rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than ayn rand.
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It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the church, like st. augustine and st. thomas aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (augustine) or killed (aquinas).
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You are out of control, rand al'thor,' she declared. i do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. he sounded exhausted. ... i hate what you just did, rand,' nynaeve snarled. 'no, "hate" isn't strong enough. i loathe what you've done. what has happened to you?' test him!' rand whispered, voice dangerous. 'before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.
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Religion, if it is genuine, is so profoundly interwoven with individual thought and experience that it is no more exhaustible than consciousness itself. and fiction whose purpose is didactic is bad no matter whether the matter to be "taught" is christianity or the world view of ayn rand. it seems often to be assumed by writers that religion is a pose, meant to deceive oneself or others, or that it is a bad patch on doubt or complexity. this is only convention, however. the writers i know have a much deeper engagement with the real issues of religion.
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