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Old 08-21-2009, 11:11 AM   #24 (permalink)
Inuzuka Skysword
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I haven't read any Alan Watts. I have read a lot of Ayn Rand. I don't think of Ayn Rand as the greatest philosopher of all time. I consider the greatest organizer is philosophy. She took Nietzsche's egoism and made it rational. She gave it a political stance. She gave it a stance on art. I think Ayn Rand's philosophy misses ideas, or rather, she just doesn't explain some important things. Her philosophy is like a skeleton and you have to go and find the meat and the muscle if you want to live it yourself and enjoy it.

If anything Nietzsche and Aristotle are, I think, the most important philosophers.

Alan Watts is, from a quick search, a mystic of some sort so I don't know if I can say he is better than Ayn Rand. I really liked the youtube/podcast thing that was posted earlier in the thread.
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