Ayn Rand was wrong in many regards—and her epistemology came after the definition for her philosophy, and should certainly be discounted as rationalization and little more—but any half-rational Objectivist will recognize that the philosophy should be regarded objectively, and her quite subjective views of personal values should be taken with a grain of salt.
Incidentally, if you’re interested in her as a character, you may want to read We The Living (Which she herself described as a philosophical autobiography) - there are several hints scattered throughout it that she always had a love affair with power, that it was not merely something that she developed later in her life.
but any half-rational Objectivist will recognize that the philosophy should be regarded objectively, and her quite subjective views of personal values should be taken with a grain of salt.
But values are Objective, per Objectivists.
Incidentally, if you’re interested in her as a character, you may want to read We The Living
IMO, also her best novel. Her sense of life, without an Objectivist justification for it.
Ayn Rand was wrong in many regards—and her epistemology came after the definition for her philosophy, and should certainly be discounted as rationalization and little more—but any half-rational Objectivist will recognize that the philosophy should be regarded objectively, and her quite subjective views of personal values should be taken with a grain of salt.
Incidentally, if you’re interested in her as a character, you may want to read We The Living (Which she herself described as a philosophical autobiography) - there are several hints scattered throughout it that she always had a love affair with power, that it was not merely something that she developed later in her life.
But values are Objective, per Objectivists.
IMO, also her best novel. Her sense of life, without an Objectivist justification for it.