tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607244853294131438.post6226523740492993983..comments2024-03-26T12:13:26.642-07:00Comments on ArtfulOpinions: Philosophy in High SchoolArtfulOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00147604026683473242noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607244853294131438.post-10646011848773596582012-02-15T06:14:11.163-08:002012-02-15T06:14:11.163-08:00Welcome, Dyami, and thanks for your comment. You a...Welcome, Dyami, and thanks for your comment. You aren't the first person ever to have been led astray by Ms. Rand, but I know a few people who still profess objectivism, despite their age.<br /><br />That in itself is not remarkable. I still know people who think B.F. Skinner's Behaviorism is on the mark, despite the total demolition of that primitive ideology posing as science by Noam Chomsky, not to mention the wealth of evidence.<br /><br />I think that you got the principal benefit of an Intro to Philosophy course -- a punch in the Assumptions.<br /><br />A.ArtfulOnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147604026683473242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607244853294131438.post-7006578501358504912012-02-14T20:18:45.941-08:002012-02-14T20:18:45.941-08:00The closest thing to philosophy I was ever exposed...The closest thing to philosophy I was ever exposed to in high school was reading Ayn Rand's Fountainhead, leading me to a passive-aggresive stance in favour of her objectivism (I admit this with some embarrassment) and if curiosity or chance - randomly picking intro to philo as a "bird coure" - hadn't further influenced me I may have remained an ignorant proponent of a truly awful idiology, which gave me a personal experience of the necessity of being tought philosophy, logic, and reasoning.Dyami Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870083033404046530noreply@blogger.com