Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Ayn Rand on Family Matters

Rand's focus wasn't on child raising, any more than it was on farming or physics; yet she would not regard these as unimportant.  Context matters, here as elsewhere.  As a neo-Objectivist, with three children and three grandchildren, I find all this Rand-bashing a non-sequitor. Nothing in her thinking stands against the family in general but as a responsible person she probably realized that given her extreme focus on philosophical and related matter, it would be best for her not to commit to raising kids; elementary but some people must find something personally objectionable about Rand, given how hard it is to take issue with her philosophy

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