I'm not really a libertarian. My libertarian tweeps occasionally hope that I am seeing the light but my socialist & pro-Europe tendencies dismay them.
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That's an American misunderstanding which has only come into vogue since followers of Ayn Rand's "philosophy" (don't get me started on this rant) founded a political party they called "Libertarian," back in 1971. Prior to that, most Americans understood "libertarian" the same way
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I run a philosophy blog for beginners. This is the post I made about Ayn Rand:http://whatsthepointofphilosophy.tumblr.com/post/157845738954/rand-pall …
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When I was an undergrad Philosophy major, I asked a couple of my professors about Ayn Rand (keep in mind this was a private school where a stunning 50% of the faculty regarded themselves as "conservative," which was a rather large percentage in an American university at the time)
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and they both told me that no professional academic philosopher took her seriously. She was never mentioned in any Philosophy class I took, only in PoliSci & Econ. I had to read her stuff on my own time to learn why she wasn't taken seriously, & it was still a few years before
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I was stupid enough to keep an open mind and read her stuff for myself. I wish I had just listened to literally every single philosophy professor I consulted on this matter.
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No, it's good that you did, so you could see for yourself what bullshit it is.
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