[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Having heard Atlas Shrugged touted often on Free Republic as one of the greats in literature,

Ask any serious philosophers what they think of Ayn Rand (that is if you are lucky enough to know any...)

[dubyagee]

Ask any serious philosophers what they think of Ayn Rand (that is if you are lucky enough to know any...)

Must say that I am not lucky enough to know any....

[Frapster]

Ask any serious philosophers what they think of Ayn Rand (that is if you are lucky enough to know any...)

For those of us who don't know any what would they say?

[shempy]

Could you name a few of today's "serious philosophers"? How does one become a "serious philosopher"?

[lelio]

Ask any serious philosophers what they think of Ayn Rand
Let me guess: they hate her as she explains her philosophy in a sound and rational way. No mysticism. No circular reasoning. No depending on twisted logic.
If the 'serious philosophers' can't keep their world a secret cloaked in words that no one can understand they'll soon be out of a job. Perhaps that's why they dislike her.

[DAnconia55]

Ask any serious philosophers what they think of Ayn Rand

Oh, you mean the same 'serious' 'philosophers' that are responsible for the current state of affairs? Or do you mean their later-day Imp children?

Rand describes what IS.

[Xenalyte]

Ask any serious philosophers what they think of Ayn Rand (that is if you are lucky enough to know any...)

I started to ask, but as soon as the words "Ayn Rand" came out of my mouth, my sample of two philosophers doubled over laughing, and said, "Take that worthless bilge outa here."

And then one asked me who John Galt was, so I hollered, "Look over there - isn't that Schrodinger's cat?" and dropped my copy of Atlas Shrugged on his foot.

(My philosopher friends are much stronger on Heisenberg and Occam and such.)