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    <body><![CDATA[This book by novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, (author of &quot;Atlas Shrugged&quot; and &quot;The Fountainhead&quot;) consists of one brilliant essay analyzing the backward and mystical state of the humanities throughout all of man’s history, and the most philosophical selections of Rand’s fic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78029900">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[That was the lousiest book I have ever read on philosophy and trying to educate a beginner, a new intellectual on philosophy. I would choose Durant instead or Sophie's World by Gaarder which is actually a work of art.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If &quot;Anthem&quot; could be construed as &quot;Objectivism 101&quot;, &quot;For the New Intellectual&quot; could be construed as the sophomore and junior level course. The summary dramatized in &quot;Anthem&quot; is opened up and detailed further in this book. It's not for the faint-hearted or th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68495819">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very dissapointing. The book consisted of a rant style essay followed by excerpts of other works published by the author. No other comment.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[brilliant russian woman, made me proud to be an american capitalist, i felt sad for her total ignorance of spiritual realities]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just read her books. Don't just go for the easy way out and get a book of excerpts.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[She thinks she's an uperman-and does a poor job of proving it]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the most egregious part of this book is how she butchers Kant's ideas.  In the tradition of a typical &quot;straw man argument,&quot; she offers a simplistic version of his ideas, and then knocks it down.  <br/><br/>I am not a Kant follower, but if you are going to attack his philosophy, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6624477">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe I just don't get it, but I found the passages taken from Rand's novels to be pedantic and deathly dull. The history of philosophy sections at the beginning were quite interesting and well thought out. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite quote from this book: &quot;He will know that ideas divorced from consequent action are fraudulent, and that action divorced from ideas is suicidal.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The best cannonfodder for debaters on the planet, I especially love her distaste for Kant.  A part from these, a good spectrum of her devolopment of objectivism.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent diatribe on Ayn Rand's philosophy. I particularly enjoyed the beginning part where she castigated philosophers like Kant to which i concur. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like it perfectly fine.  Except for the title essay, it's just a collection of pieces from her fiction]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A great explication of Ayn's philosophy, and the primary reason I think she's an idiot.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely the biggest BS I have ever read.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's kind of a hoot, historicistically speaking.]]></body>
    
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