{"id":6797,"date":"2011-04-20T10:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2011-04-20T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:15:40","slug":"why-ayn-rand-is-wrong-and-why-it-matters-kindle-book-by-levi-asher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/04\/20\/why-ayn-rand-is-wrong-and-why-it-matters-kindle-book-by-levi-asher\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ayn Rand is Wrong (and Why It Matters): Kindle Book by Levi Asher"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Levi Asher, the writer behind the long-running Literary Kicks<\/a> site, has decided to move into the world of Kindle ebook publishing.\u00a0 He’s starting the series off with a philosophical essay on the Objectivism of Ayn Rand.\u00a0 Why Ayn Rand is Wrong (and Why It Matters<\/em>)<\/a> expands upon several posts Asher has made recently in his ongoing Philosophy Weekend discussions<\/a>.\u00a0 The focus on philosophy and its requirements for logical thinking and argument is especially needed right now in a political and ideological world of harsh opinion and attack masquerading as argument.\u00a0 I often do this kind of attack-dog arguing myself.\u00a0 It’s fun and it clears the sinuses effectively.\u00a0 But it does not really serve much purpose.\u00a0 Rational philosophical debate does serve a purpose and tends to foster respect between opposing parties.<\/p>\n

Ayn Rand, for me, is simply the author of a very readable but rather simplistic novel, The Fountainhead<\/em>.\u00a0 I tried to read Atlas Shrugged<\/em>, but gave up after two hundred pages, finding it so belabored and filled with lunkheaded ideas that I simply couldn’t put up with another speech from one of its cutout characters.\u00a0\u00a0 However, Rand also has a body of philosophical writing that seems to have been very influential and is having some kind of a resurgence lately among mostly conservative-minded people.<\/p>\n

I have always thought that Rand was basically reacting violently to the mass-mindedness she saw everywhere in the first half of the twentieth century.\u00a0 That mass-mind quality led millions to death via the trenches of World War I or the concentrations camps and genocide of Hitler and Stalin.\u00a0 In the face of such horror, I think I too would have found solace in elevating the individual above all else.<\/p>\n

I have purchased my copy of the Kindle book but I have not read it yet.\u00a0 When I do finish the book and if I feel competent to do so I will try to write a little review.\u00a0 But since I know Levi Asher’s writing very well from his fascinating blog I can certainly recommend that you head over to Amazon and buy a copy of a book<\/a> that is for thinking.<\/p>\n

Get Why Ayn Rand is Wrong (and Why It Matters) on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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