Ayn Rand once stated that early in her philosophical career, she admired the existential ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche. But she soon began to diverge from his ideas when she postulated the importance of reason over Nietzsche's reckless adherence to passion. While she did recognize ambitions and innate emotions as intuitive indicators of one's values, she regarded our conscious reasoning skills and logic as being more reliable.
So my question is, in your humble opinion, is it better to live life with the blind existential passion proclaimed by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus and others, much like a Byronic hero? Or is it better live, while still ambitiously, with calculating reason and with reverence for values that are not necessarily and wholly subjective, as in Rand's Objectivism?
2007-09-10
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