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    Atton Rand?

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    I never said Libertarians are objectivists. I said that she was the source of Libertarian political theory.

     

    You have to know what I'm saying before you can disagree with it.

     

    You are quite right. Though libertarianism existed in previous incarnations (such as classical liberalism), Rand was the first one to embody her political principle into a single statement that libertarians tend to accept as their modus operandi. That principle is known as the "non-aggression principle". Some libertarians also call it the ZAP, or "zero-aggression principle".

     

    Objectivism is far more than libertarianism. While Objectivism is a full philosophy dealing with metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, aesthetics, teleology, etc. etc., libertarianism is politics-only, shared among those of many different philosophical roots, even Nihilism. The primary reason Rand didn't care much for the libertarian movement as a whole is the fact that it didn't have her ideal philosophical root.

     

    As an Objectivist I would agree with her :) Of course, I am a member of the LP anyway. I don't see much choice.

     

    Bump of the year.

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