February 2, 2005
For some time I have been persuaded by Georges Rey’s account of meta-atheism. (Georges was one of my teachers at Maryland.) His claim is that many people who say they believe in God don’t really. It’s not that people are lying about what they really believe. It’s just that we’re often wrong about our own [...]
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February 2, 2005
Today is Ayn Rand’s 100th birthday. Bryan Caplan, who is smarter than you are, defends Rand’s legacy at the EconLog. I especially like this bit:
Yes, many of her philosophical arguments are question-begging. Shocking… unless you’ve read the work of Descartes, Locke, Kant, or Mill. They all make plenty of embarrassingly bad arguments. If you don’t [...]
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