Ok Mark, I don't pay much attention to my google ads, but when I read your response I smiled and glanced up and it said, "CSX A tough act to follow" I have no idea what that means except cowgirls on the beach are exactly that.
Which is kinda interesting because in a roundabout way, I was working on something along those lines last night. I'll keep you posted. John PS: I clicked on the link and it was a hot stock tip on the fool.com, there ya go. The very definition of useful. Except to me of course. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:09 PM, 118 <[email protected]> wrote: > OK John, I think it's your fault this time. I got adds for the Holocaust > Tour through some www site on the side of my gmail account, when I opened > your post. Please stop using so many commercial producing words. Your > post > is obviously full of propaganda judging from all the adds I got with it. I > get the add for Ayn Rand Egoism, but I'm still trying to figure out why > google is trying to sell me a Decision Making Tree, must have something to > do with Quality... So, Godoogle is trying to lead me down some corrupt > path and the temptation is hard to fight sometimes. Stick to discussing > beaches or cowgirls, so that I get some useful adds. :-) > > Mark > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:48 PM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From the afterward of Scott Ryan's Objectivism and the Corruption of > > Rationality; a Critique of Ayn Rand's Epistemology: > > > > > > > > We have examined some of these features in this volume and confirmed many > > of > > my friend's opinions. My own view is that Rand added nothing whatsoever > of > > importance to the philosophical foundations of classical liberalism, > indeed > > what she did add is not only philosophically negligible but also > positively > > dangerous. To paraphrase a remark attributed to Oscar Wilde in another > > context: what is good in Objectivism is not original and what is original > > is > > not good. > > > > > > The philosophy of liberty and the economic theory of capitalism can best > be > > studied from other sources, and the psychological hazards of cleaving to > > Rand's principles seem to me to outweigh by far any possible benefits > > therefrom. The responsibility for those hazards, rest with Rand herself. > > They are merely the expression, in psuedophilosophical form, of her own > > psychological tendencies and character traits. her account of "reason" > is > > not only flawed, but culpably flawed; she should have known better, she > had > > access to the works of philosophers who did know better, and she > > deliberately offered a philosophy of reason that was expressly intended > to > > undermine and discredit the foundations not only of theology but any > > philosophical outlook that bore any remote threat of entailing theism. > > > > > > In the process she undermined and discredited the foundations--and the > > exercise-- of reason itself. I can hardly think that classical > liberalism > > is any stronger for her influence. Those who think otherwise should at > > least be warned of the hazards of her philosophy, and I hope this > critique > > has in some manner helped to provide such a warning. > > > > > > How he describes himself: > > > > > > I am a theologically liberal pantheist, in same philsophical camp as > > Spinoza, Royce and Timothy L.S. Sprigge and spiritually at home among > > Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman; I share Blanshard's essential views of > > reason; > > and among traditional religions my primary loyalties lie with Judaism. > But > > for the purposes of the present study we shall not attempt to adjudicate > > among these traditions but shall instead focus on what I take to be the > > view > > roughly common to them all. Paraphrasing Blanshard, at the end of The > > Nature > > of Thought, it is the view that a single intelligible order is in the > > process of construction or reconstruction in and through all individual > > knowing minds, and itself constitutes the common order in which all such > > minds participate. > > > > > > How i feel about him: Good enough to add him to my amazonian bday > > collection, right after BA Wallace and just ahead of J Royce's Problem of > > Christianity. Yummm... > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
