tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273216399256456190.post3018319309220021133..comments2022-12-28T14:41:54.366+05:30Comments on Ayn Rand - India: "Ayn Rand And I" By Gurcharan DasKirtimalinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10119530662034927042noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273216399256456190.post-66357776975838012552010-08-08T03:45:22.961+05:302010-08-08T03:45:22.961+05:30Yes, Gurcharan Das betrays only a tenuous understa...Yes, Gurcharan Das betrays only a tenuous understanding of Objectivism, and his personal philosophy is certainly not compatible with Objectivism. In fact, Objectivists would find Heller's view that Ayn Rand's ideas were a product of her childhood experiences alone to be insulting, offensive, and narrow-minded.MKRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273216399256456190.post-17661438565304391232010-08-06T17:49:59.593+05:302010-08-06T17:49:59.593+05:30Dear Mr Kaimal,
Let me convey my regards and thank...Dear Mr Kaimal,<br />Let me convey my regards and thanks for the befitting reply.<br />I have nothing to add to your post, except the fact that I find it presumptous for Mr Gurcharan Das to doubt the language efficacy of Ms Ayn Rand.<br /><br />Any comments posted here should at least be polite to Ms Ayn Rand.J S Pooniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11596114753224753823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273216399256456190.post-67248709995143404772010-08-05T00:52:58.384+05:302010-08-05T00:52:58.384+05:30Gurcharan is not someone I would regard as suffici...Gurcharan is not someone I would regard as sufficiently knowledgeable about Objectivism. I doubt that he has any basic understanding of the Objectivist theory of concepts from which the concept of "selfishness" can properly be justified. <br /><br />His views on Ayn Rand and Objectivism are exactly that--his views.Jerry Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05900661860796764587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273216399256456190.post-79817749653659315862010-08-04T09:14:01.878+05:302010-08-04T09:14:01.878+05:30The following is a minor correction to the comment...The following is a minor correction to the comment I posted.<br /><br />In the first line of my comment, I had inadvertently mis-spelt the reviewer's first name. His first name is Gurcharan, not Gurucharan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273216399256456190.post-27593028448989912742010-08-04T08:27:07.516+05:302010-08-04T08:27:07.516+05:30I disagree with Gurucharan Das's view that Ayn...I disagree with Gurucharan Das's view that Ayn Rand would have been more effective if she had distinguished self-interest from selfishness.<br /><br />In the Introduction to The Virtue of Selfishness, Miss Rand wrote:<br /><br />"The title of this book may evoke the kind of question that I hear once in a while: 'Why do you use the word "selfishness" to denote virtuous Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com