humanities.philosophy.objectivism

Malrassic Park wrote:
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> I never took that 'attitude,' so try another straw man. Furthermore,
> the question 'where is the manness in men?' was never answered, Rand
> never dealt with 'manness' or any '-ness' concept in ITOE, although
> she claimed to. She managed to come up with the following line, 'Let
> those who attempt to invalidate concepts by declaring that they cannot
> find "manness" in men, try to invalidate algebra by declaring that
> they cannot find "a-ness" in 5 or in 5,000,000.' (17) However, it has
> nothing to do with the preceding arguments as Rand never showed how
> the concept 'manness' was formed, only a concept such as 'man.'

The thing all humans have in common is the genome. So the "manness in
man" is the human genome.

Any philosophical approach that bounds away from physical matters is
bound to miss the mark.

Bob Kolker