Yes, the ‘Rand’ is Ayn Rand. The atheist, selfish, capitalist, free market, anti collectivist, merciless etc… Don’t like her? Well that doesn’t really matter here. I’m looking at ideas and maybe I won’t even express hers accurately. I’ll take a little piece at a time. I’m interested to see if (though an atheist) her broader views are compatible with scripture. I think they are. Lets begin where she would, I think, with first principles. Rand was a great fan of Aristotle. Each volume of Atlas Shrugged was named after principles he basically codified. ‘Non-Contradiction’, ‘Either Or’, and ‘A is […….]
Jul 102011