http://elgordochico.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] elgordochico.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sabotabby 2007-03-04 05:25 pm (UTC)

Hm. I think you're right about her position towards subjectivism. I was writing from memory, but her universal principles, even her objectivism, always struck me as a bit self-contradictory. Fist of all, she believed in the will to power as ultimately the only legitimate motivation for human action. She also believed that this motivation had been perverted by a parasitical idea called "altruism," which was first introduced by Christianity, and later adopted by Communism. So far that's strictly Nietzchean. And then didn't she claim pure egoism would lead to a moral society because everyone was free to do what they liked? Leaving aside the madness of such an assertion, isn't it an opposite of a universal value imposition?

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