Objectivism isn't perfect, but it's the closest to perfect that I've ever seen. But, the serious adherents that I've chatted with and met are always very arrogant. Does this philosophy foster arrogance?
2007-01-31 04:39:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Any theory that fosters arrogance has to have something wrong with. The problem with Randian objectivism is not that it is untrue; it's that it's a rather shallow view of the world. It is also regurgitated Kantianism and Hobbism to accommodate modern capitalist morality.
If you stop there, at thinking we live in the most perfect of all possible worlds, and that anything beyond the obvious is unknowable and therefore not worth bothering about, I suppose you could become arrogant. But you'll also become limited in your outlook (Sorry if that comes out as arrogant).
2007-01-31 04:48:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It is part and parcel with the ruthlessness of the philosophy.
2007-01-31 12:47:33 · answer #2 · answered by Sophist 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I guess whether they are arrogant or not is all in how you see it.
2007-01-31 13:06:18 · answer #3 · answered by Immortal Cordova 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not know
2007-01-31 12:49:28 · answer #4 · answered by janice a 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋