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Popper vs Rand

A reader 01:49,

It would be great to see a truly Libertarian state. Please, however, let it be one that is inspired more by the philosophy of Karl Popper than by the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Rand's Objectivism seems to me to have fallen into the traps of inductivism and essentialism (to name but a few ism's), although it contains many good ideas about freedom, minimum state etc.

I would be interested to get the opinion of people here how an Objectivist-Libertarian state would compare to Popperian-Libertarian state. I suspect that because Objectivist philosophy is based on untruths that an Objectivist-Libertarian state would not be the sort of paradise Elliot imagines.

by Brian S on Mon, 04/23/2007 - 14:35

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