tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27279074.post115370433213480511..comments2023-10-30T06:47:51.643-07:00Comments on ObjectiBlog: Libertarianism, Politics and Objectivism: James Valliant on Rand's Intellectual DebtsNeil Parillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11074901258306769278noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27279074.post-1154028798103147882006-07-27T12:33:00.000-07:002006-07-27T12:33:00.000-07:00She is not guilty of mere "hyperbole" but repeated...She is not guilty of mere "hyperbole" but repeatedly telling her readers something that she knows to be false -- in a published book.<BR/><BR/>It's interesting, Neil, that you simply ignore a mass of other data that is of the exact same order: i.e., factually false, as stated -- and about something within the author's personal knowledge.<BR/><BR/>How many times will you be forced to reconstruct Ms. Branden's language in order to make it sound fair before you realize that Ms. Branden -- publishing a book -- caught over and over in falsehood after falsehood, or absurd "hyperbole" after "hyperbole," if you prefer -- which she knows from personal knowledge to be false -- before you are able to see the obvious?<BR/><BR/>There's a forest here, and it's comprised of many more trees than you are mentioning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27279074.post-1153968155047604982006-07-26T19:42:00.000-07:002006-07-26T19:42:00.000-07:00Jim,Just because someone says something "false" do...Jim,<BR/><BR/>Just because someone says something "false" doesn't mean that a person has been dishonest (intentionally deceitful).<BR/><BR/>As normally quoted, what Rand said was that her only philosophical debt was to Aristotle. Ms. Branden is guilty of (at most) a bit of hyperbole. And since Branden does quote other sources, is she trying to hide anything.<BR/><BR/>Maybe Barbara Branden isn't a particularly clear writer or an exceptional historian?<BR/><BR/>-Neil ParilleNeil Parillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11074901258306769278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27279074.post-1153958827434702282006-07-26T17:07:00.000-07:002006-07-26T17:07:00.000-07:00You may think you "know" what Ms. Branden is REALL...You may think you "know" what Ms. Branden is REALLY "saying" -- but what she literally said was that Rand believed that "the only thinker from whom she had anything to learn" was Aristotle and maybe some Aquinas, and that she dismissed "as worthless if not immoral the whole of philosophy" outside of these exceptions.<BR/><BR/>This is not honest on her part -- Ms. Branden knows quite well that Rand positively quotes and mentions several other thinkers -- e.g. Francis Bacon, Locke, Nietzsche, John Herman Randall, etc. -- in many of her published sources -- sources Ms. Branden herself quotes.<BR/><BR/>What Ms. Branden says is just false.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27279074.post-1153958759076795772006-07-26T17:05:00.000-07:002006-07-26T17:05:00.000-07:00You may think you "know" what Ms. Branden is REALL...You may think you "know" what Ms. Branden is REALLY "saying" -- but what she literally said was that Rand believed that "the only thinker from whom she had anything to learn" was Aristotle and maybe some Aquinas, and that she dismissed "as worthless if not immoral the whole of philosophy" outside of these exceptions.<BR/><BR/>This is not honest on her part -- Ms. Branden knows quite well that Rand positively quotes and mentions several other thinkers -- e.g. Francis Bacon, Locke, Nietzsche, John Herman Randall, etc. -- in many of her published sources -- sources Ms. Branden herself quotes.<BR/><BR/>What Ms. Branden says is just false.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com