We are not born tabula rasa.
This is a continuation of the Preface to The Moral Bias of Objectivism: How Moral Ideals Cloud Objectivity. See the Introduction and the beginning of the Preface at the main page of Ex Objectivist. Before You Go, Some Homework Objectivists usually get to about this point (or sooner) and stop reading. They explicitly tell me …
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Objectivists, Check YOUR Premises I find I really can’t get anywhere with Objectivists. Ever. My one and only hope (outside of them hitting rock bottom and finally being open to new ideas) is to ask them to check their premises—about reason itself. No matter what I do or say, Objectivists typically won’t accept my challenge. …
The book will be The Moral Bias of Objectivism: How Moral Ideals Cloud Objectivity. I have the summary of the book as well as the Introduction, describing my 10-year involvement with Objectivism, at the main page of this site. This is the next part of the Preface to the book. Quick links for this page …
Ayn Rand had an abysmal, pessimistic view of human nature itself, and then unforgivably set this abysmal, pessimistic view of human nature in stone by developing an elaborate moral and political philosophy around it.