humanities.philosophy.objectivism

In another thread I asked who was the mysterious skeptic who harassed
Ayn Rand with the question about finding the manness in men.

At the end of ITOE's Appendix I found this answer from AR:

'All right. Historically, it happened this way. Somewhere in the
1940s, so it's over twenty years ago, I was discussing the issue of
concepts with a Jesuit, who philosophically was a Thomist. He was
holding to the Aristotelian position that concepts refer to an essence
in concretes. And he specifically referred to "manness" in man and
"roseness" in roses. I was arguing with him that there is no such
thing, and that these names refer merely to an organization of
concretes, that this is our way of organizing concretes.'
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We usually go over the top w/ our new found freedoms.
Unfortunately, her 'followers' are as radical as Pat
Robertson's. Discernment goes out the window.
- A youtube poster