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This review is from: The Virtue of Selfishness (Paperback)
I went in expecting the profoundly bad writing, melodrama, and straw-man theater of Rand's fiction and I was surprised at how well it read and also at the serious points raised. I was challenged by how persuasively they were treated.It is easy to attack libertarian ideas and capitalism-turned-philosophy, but Rand and Branden present a world-view here that, when situated in their materialistic-atheist context, is not easily refuted, logically. The book did not change my mind about my conclusions, but it did make me examine my premises and assumptions. I read this book to be challenged and to better understand those who hold a competing world-view. For that reason this one was a success. There are flaws in the book, and of course I need to point them out. They lie primarily in the one-dimensional enemy it presents. The authors give some solid criticism of the "New Left" movement and "liberalism" as they existed, and that criticism is fresh and applicable to liberalism today. They go too far, however, by assigning all non-objectivist viewpoints to the realm of "altruism" and then limiting the definition of "altruism" to serve the role of boogeyman. Their definition of ideas grouped under "collectivism" is better, but also flawed. They do not present the counter-cases in a way that does them any justice. The Authors do not really follow other philosophy schools that I have read. They are not really the neo-Nietzscheists I had supposed. In many ways the books stands as a piece of anti-philosophy. Interesting and better than I had expected.
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