Objectivism
To remember:
The three axioms. Existence -- Consciousness -- Identity.
Hard to wrap my head around this basis of Ayn Rand's philosophy, becuase my brain at the moment feels like ideology soup. Lots of ideas swarming around, none so bold as to take hold [my strength.] The immediate problem is with her presentation; the argument that axioms need not be proven because they're axioms makes sense when she explains the why and how, but still seems sophomoric nonetheless. Like an escape hatch out the back of the room.
Identity is the one I grapple with the most. What is this idea of Identity, but a construction of the human mind? And even in the asking one points to this elusive idea of something being seperate from something else, etc. Blah blah blah. They had scones at the market today. So I got a couple.
The three axioms. Existence -- Consciousness -- Identity.
Hard to wrap my head around this basis of Ayn Rand's philosophy, becuase my brain at the moment feels like ideology soup. Lots of ideas swarming around, none so bold as to take hold [my strength.] The immediate problem is with her presentation; the argument that axioms need not be proven because they're axioms makes sense when she explains the why and how, but still seems sophomoric nonetheless. Like an escape hatch out the back of the room.
Identity is the one I grapple with the most. What is this idea of Identity, but a construction of the human mind? And even in the asking one points to this elusive idea of something being seperate from something else, etc. Blah blah blah. They had scones at the market today. So I got a couple.
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