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Ansiktsburk, I should also have linked to my writings on Kant and Rand in the scope of the subject article. I try to define Kant’s technical terms as they arise in these. Kant and Rand on Metaphysics Normativity of Logic – Kant v. Rand Perception and Truth – Kant and Rand Kant’s Wrestle with Happine...

You are also disrespectful in your Professor-Superior issuing of orders and handing out grades on compliance to a public not your student. You are also disrespectful of mind and person in your presumptuousness of presuming I am in agreement with Rand's philosophy. For three decades I have given my s...

“Lucky old you.” – sarcastic, making small, disrespectful you.

Lucky me.

Hi u, Regarding the post before last: Rand’s arguments for the truth and axiomatic standing of her axiomatic concepts and principles are given in Atlas Shrugged in the long radio speech of the protagonist. The discussion in her Epistemology is a further characterization of the relationship of those ...

Hi A, The phrase “integrative touchstones for objectivity” is my own. An example of its application to Rand’s view of her axiomatic concepts and principles would be in Atlas where she writes: “Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, ...

Dana Andreicut, Thank you for the summary comparison of core elements in Kant and Rand. Where you referred to space and time as fundamental categories in Kant’s theoretical philosophy, I believe you meant not categories, but forms of intuition. Perhaps you meant categories in usual parlance and did ...