tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430082373937434184.post4466265231041289305..comments2023-09-19T18:23:02.313+05:30Comments on Reddie Reasons.: Edicts Of Ayn Rand Or Tolerance For All Ideas.Khartoumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10463800175526988857noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430082373937434184.post-84575578489802526582009-03-31T21:29:00.000+05:302009-03-31T21:29:00.000+05:30Thanks Evan.I am just 22 and am really jealous of ...Thanks Evan.<BR/><BR/>I am just 22 and am really jealous of people who got the chance to watch Ayn Rand in action.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I think it is a good point that you make because you assert the primacy of existence view in regard to the tree-sound example. A thing is what it is and so is a tree. If its identity dictates a sound when it falls -- there has to be a sound, regardless of the fact whether one is there to hear it or not.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for stopping by.khartoumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09761611008437385981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430082373937434184.post-69873468193410390782009-03-29T21:36:00.000+05:302009-03-29T21:36:00.000+05:30I like what you have written here about how other...I like what you have written here about how others see or misunderstand Objectivism. I've been an admirer of Ayn Rand since I first discovered her book "The Virtue of Selfishness" in about 1964. I've even been lucky enough to have seen her speak in person at several New York conferences and Nathaniel Branden Institute in about 1968. For me, the most important concept that I have taken away from Objectivism is the simple notion that the objective world is reality and it requires human reason to understand it and survive. I can sum up this understanding with an old philosophical canard that I remember from my youth. I remember being challenged with this banal question "If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" Upon first hearing this question as a youth, I thought it a mysterious and profound notion. Now as an old "objectivist", I finally know without doubt, the answer to that question, and why it is so banal. Of course the falling tree makes a sound. No hearing thing is necessary to create a sound. What is required is the falling tree energy, the collision with the ground, the vibrations that would most certainly occur and air (or some other sound carrying medium). Only a non-objectivist would answer otherwise. Does this make a good point or not?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17916281668367519481noreply@blogger.com