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On Ayn Rand (Wadsworth Philosophers Series) by Allan Gotthelf

By Allan Gotthelf

This short textual content assists scholars in knowing Ayn Rand's philosophy and considering to be able to extra absolutely interact in valuable, clever category discussion and enhance their figuring out in fact content material. a part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will ultimately include nearly a hundred titles, each one targeting a unmarried "thinker" from precedent days to the present), ON AYN RAND is written by way of a thinker deeply versed within the philosophy of this key philosopher. Like different books within the sequence, this concise publication deals adequate perception into the taking into consideration a striking thinker larger allowing scholars to interact the interpreting and to debate the cloth in school and on paper.

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The independence of the object of perceptual awareness from the act of perception is thus self-evidently available to us , according to Ayn Rand. If many philosophers persist nonetheless in holding the Cartesian premise that we can be certain we are something aware of while doubting the existence of an external world, she held, it is because they subscribe to an erroneous theory of perception. The actually self-evident may not appear self-evident to those in the throes of wrong theory. We will return to this point in our discussion of her direct realist theory of perception in the chapter after next (p 12.

6 Its axiomatic status is clear from our discussion of the professor: any attempt to deny that something exists accepts and uses the fact that something does exist. This is a clear case of "re-affirma­ tion through denial". e. , that you are aware of 37 Metaphysics what ex is ts. Your possession of consciousness--the faculty of perceiving what exists--i s a second self-evident and undeniable fact. Were our professor to announce that after years of study he has discovered that he is not conscious, you would rightly protest that he has to be conscious to discover that.

Suppose that a philosophy professor were to announce in class that after years of study he has discovered that nothing exists. What would your reaction be? You might observe that his statement is not only false, it is self-refuting. In order for such a statement to be made, the statement' s speaker must exist, its content must exist, and some sort of world must exist to give meaning to that content. If nothing existed, you might remark, there would be no one there to notice it. What is perceptually self-evident and absolutely undeniable is that something exists.

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