I’ll willingly confess to not being interested in Aristotle in the least. Philosophy coursework cured me of interest in Greek philosophy. Give me another twenty years and I might recover from that.
Have you read TVTropes’ assessment of Objectivism? It’s actually the best summary I’ve ever read, as far as the core of the philosophy goes.
By the way, I fully share yours (and Eliezer’s) sentiment in regard to academic philosophy. I took a “philosophy of mind” course in college, thinking that would be extremely interesting, and I ended up dropping the class in short order. It was only after a long study of Rand that I ever became interested in philosophy again, once I realized I had a sane basis on which to proceed.
I’ll willingly confess to not being interested in Aristotle in the least. Philosophy coursework cured me of interest in Greek philosophy. Give me another twenty years and I might recover from that.
Have you read TVTropes’ assessment of Objectivism? It’s actually the best summary I’ve ever read, as far as the core of the philosophy goes.
No I haven’t! That was quite good, thanks.
By the way, I fully share yours (and Eliezer’s) sentiment in regard to academic philosophy. I took a “philosophy of mind” course in college, thinking that would be extremely interesting, and I ended up dropping the class in short order. It was only after a long study of Rand that I ever became interested in philosophy again, once I realized I had a sane basis on which to proceed.