'...the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.'
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
it is unfortunate her name has been tarnished because often people agree with her ideas (e.g. individual freedom) but dismiss them when they find out they were her ideas.
I think she serves a good ironic example of where selfish ignorance gets you - sickened by your vices, abandoned by your friends, penniless and on welfare at the end of. Karma is a bitch
true, a case of the messenger getting in the way of the message.
I don't think the message is the problem. It's fundamentally flawed. Stalin also accomplished all of those things for himself.
The gears always turn by the same rules, whether they are known and accepted or not.
What are the counter arguments to this?
