I have just finished reading The Virtue of Selfishness and I have a few thoughts/questions Id like clarification on. I understand everything in the book, it is very simple, however I find that the tone and approach of certain subjects in some of the essays was, for lack of a better way to say it too human. When I think of logic I think of information theory, and science, and pure logic. My main question is, did Ayn Rand write her essays the way she did because she knew that the best way to interact with people was to appeal to their humanity, or did she write them that way because thats just the way she was? Or is it more a matter of the time she lived in? Information Theory was created in 1948 by Claude Shannon so I can understand if it was still relatively new. However nowadays I am led to understand that we have access to far more data that can be used as evidence of the validity of all the logical principles entailed by Objectivism and objectivity. That more succinct technical arguments could be used as evidence for the obvious fact of an objective reality. Why do her essays not include this information? Is there any documentation that does?
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 01:15:16 +0000
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