Originally posted by Joe Pluta:
One thing Eugene's posts do is cause me to take a moment to stretch my brain like silly putty, and see what areas are thin. Ayn Rand's commentary on the human condition and especially on education and learning is one area where I am seriously lacking, and yet I sense from my dabbling that hers was a unique and powerful voice.
If anybody has any strong feelings on Rand's philosphical views, positive or negative, I'd love to hear them.
Joe
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
Originally posted by Joe Pluta:
One thing Eugene's posts do is cause me to take a moment to stretch my brain like silly putty, and see what areas are thin. Ayn Rand's commentary on the human condition and especially on education and learning is one area where I am seriously lacking, and yet I sense from my dabbling that hers was a unique and powerful voice.
If anybody has any strong feelings on Rand's philosphical views, positive or negative, I'd love to hear them.
Joe
What a wonderful world!
What a wonderful world!
What a wonderful world!
Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
But I think Atlas shrugged is a better work than it.
I agree. Compared to "Atlas Shrugged", "The Fountainhead" is just a child story. "Atlas Shrugged" came out after "The Fountainhead", of course, and you can see how Ayn Rand matured between the two books.
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
Originally posted by R K Singh:
I think I am immature ..![]()
Originally posted by R K Singh:
I found Fountainhead better than Atlas shrugged. Atlas Shrugged I found slightly "impractical" and slightly biased.
I think I am immature ..![]()
With the very young what is most important is to help them to
free themselves from psychological pressures and problems.
Now the very young are being taught complicated intellectual
problems; their studies are becoming more and more technical;
they are given more and more abstract information; various
forms of knowledge are being imposed on their brains,
thus conditioning them right from childhood. Whereas what
we are concerned with is to help the very young to have no
psychological problems, to be free of fear, anxiety, cruelty, to
have care, generosity and affection. This is far more important
than the imposition of knowledge on their young minds. This
does not mean that the child should not learn to read, write
and so on, but the emphasis is on psychological freedom
instead of the acquisition of knowledge, though that is necessary.
Surely they must be centres of learning a way of life which is not based on pleasure, on self-centered activities, but on the understanding of correct action, the depth and beauty of relationship, and the sacredness of a religious life. (Krishnamurti 1981b) (Letter dated 15th October 1980)
Originally posted by herb slocomb:
I would start with her non-fiction works first.
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh