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- From: mcgeege@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (MCGEEGE)
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- Subject: Re: Non Serviam, Issue #1
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:26:00 GMT
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- In article <C1H5ut.69z@apollo.hp.com>, nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes...
- >In article <C1BJIn.HCy@umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:
- >
- >>If you achieve that which is good by a rational standard of value, it will
- >>necesarily make you happy; but hat which makes you happy, by some undefined
- >>emotional standard, is not necessarily the good.
- >>
- >>[Ayn Rand, _Virtue of Selfishness_]
- >
- >> "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- >>you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- >>tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- >> AYN RAND
- >
- >
- > Obviously Ayn Rand makes you happy.
- > >
- >---peter
- >
-
- All this time I thought you Rand Nazi's had gotten over it. Try reading real
- philosophy sometime, or at least Rand in the original German (Mein Kampf).
-
- ---Glenn
-