Ayn Rand - Phil Donahue Interview 1979

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An interviewer who knows how to listen-rare today.

pranksterguy
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A true libertarian. I love her teachings.

todd
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I love how he tries to refute the claim that original sin is absurd by citing that it is required for Christianity to function, and it gets applause as if it wasn't an incoherent appeal to mythology. It's amazing how irrational people are.

slid_snoks
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Looks like it is from 1959 with that processing. Good interview though.

konberner
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She obviously studied Aristotle but skipped Thomas Aquinas. The effects of Original Sin is man's perennial concupiscence to sin, which, by the "condition of today's world" can't be legitimately denied. Her societal prescriptions & proscriptions steamroll over her beliefs in free will. Even with tabula raza, man's default position at birth is selfishness & she's morally disingenuous in extolling it as a virtue, indeed, the supreme virtue for any individual even over & against his or her own cradle or chosen community. Moreover, atheists & believers alike uphold the maxim that the individual's conscience is supreme.

BrotherWoody
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This is what you get when you only read one part of the Christian story. Christ's teachings can very well be combined with Rand's thought. If you wish to make altruism your goal in life, then you'd better take care of yourself first. Jesus said "love your neighbour as yourself" not "love your neighbour more than yourself". Also, Christians would never want to crucify Jesus, but he was crucified, this is simply a historical fact. But not only was he crucified, Christians believe that he rose again from death, and will judge the world justly in the future. This is no crucified man Christians worship...

theflyingdutchman
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The Altruism area is Ayn Rand's area of failure in my opinion. There is a difference between "self-sacrifice" and Statist wanting their fellow citizens to sacrifice for their ideal of social justice. She condemns *self sacrifice* - an act voluntarily carried out - and her evidence is the failure of government, an institution of coercion and mandate.

kings