Al, I hope you'll trust me that I'm not raising these questions in a
belligerent tone. But I'm having great difficulty with the meaning of words
in your post.
What is volition?
What is objective (the adjective)?
How can a value be objective?
How can your "one objective value" be something so few people, at least in
the northwest quarter of the globe, actually practice?
The "value" that says "don't seek to dominate and control others" seems to me
at best a RECOGNITION that humans have an innate drive to dominate and
control others. The "value" signifies that somewhere we find this drive
unattractive in itself and tragic in its consequences.
What makes us human, completely contrary to what you say, IMO, is that we
possess something that mediates between desire and the taking of actions to
fulfill that desire.
What was Ayn Rand's view of the Freud's writings on neurosis, by the way?
Respectfully, DAVID LAHM
who believes that we cannot meaningfully talk about knowledge without
considering language-the means by which we communicate and perhaps even think
at all.
