…be unfounded. In the first case people who follow the herd go down with the herd; in the second case one who goes against the herd succeeds. On the same note, her best non-fiction book is the obscure Romantic Manifesto, a set of her essays on art. Her philosophical essays aren't as bad as some people make out, but she oversimplifies and makes false dichotomies, and there isn't much which is original in her political…
Its naive only becaue it is idealist. If you have read her non-fiction, The Romantic Manifesto might give you the reasoning behind it. Art is the realm of the ideal, not the real. (I often give the analogy of the cave painters wasting their time painting skinny meatless cattle (which may have been…
……重新审视她的哲学。如果你还在的话，有什么推荐的书吗？《客观主义认识论导论》（Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology）值得一读吗？我读过《自私的美德》（Virtue of Selfishness），感觉还行——我更喜欢《浪漫主义宣言》（The Romantic Manifesto），觉得她在里面的思想阐述得更完善。
…another look at her philosophy. If you're still here, any books you'd recommend? Is Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology worth the read? I read Virtue of Selfishness which was OK -- I preferred the Romantic Manifesto as I felt her ideas in there were better worked out.
……翻翻评论历史就会发现我经常在 HN 上聊她，那是因为我觉得计算机科学家能从学习她的作品中获益匪浅。《客观主义认识论导论》（Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology）和《浪漫主义宣言》（The Romantic Manifesto）收录了她关于意识和认知最深刻的著作，也是我推荐的书。http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/consciousness.html 是个不错的先导内容。http://aynrandlexicon.com/ayn-rand-works/introduction-to-obj...……
…comment history you'll see I talk about her a lot on HN, and that's because I think computer scientists will gain immense value from studying her works. Introdution to Objectivist Epistemology and The Romantic Manifesto contain her deepest writings on consciousness and cognition and are the books I'd recommend. http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/consciousness.html is a good taster. http://aynrandlexicon.com/ayn-rand-works/introduction-to-obj...…
I'd be curious to know your background such that The Romantic Manifesto was an "easy" read. It was not easy for me. As for the difficulty of that book, the topic is one of the widest possible integrations in that she explains the psychological purpose of art, something I…
……理性和武力本质上是与人打交道的仅有的两种手段，因此“不首先使用武力”成了基本的社会原则。（对于前面提到的诚实读者，说服我的书是《浪漫主义宣言》（The Romantic Manifesto）和《客观主义认识论导论》（Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology），尽管《自私的美德》（Virtue of Selfishness）可能是最容易入门的起点。当我研究了诺齐克对兰德的著名批评后，我得出的结论是他这个人非常……
…reason and force were essentially the only two means of dealing with men, making non-initiation of force the fundamental social principle. (For said honest readers, the books which persuaded me were The Romantic Manifesto and Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, though Virtue of Selfishness is probably the easiest starting point. Once I studied Nozick's famous criticism of Rand, I concluded that he was someone very…
……毫无根据。第一种情况下，随波逐流的人和羊群一起完蛋；第二种情况下，逆流而上的人获得了成功。同样地，她最好的非虚构作品是那本鲜为人知的《浪漫主义宣言》（The Romantic Manifesto），那是她关于艺术的散文合集。她的哲学散文其实没有某些人说的那么差，但她把问题过度简化并制造非黑即白的虚假二分法，而且她的政治观点里并没有多少原创性的……
…be unfounded. In the first case people who follow the herd go down with the herd; in the second case one who goes against the herd succeeds. On the same note, her best non-fiction book is the obscure Romantic Manifesto, a set of her essays on art. Her philosophical essays aren't as bad as some people make out, but she oversimplifies and makes false dichotomies, and there isn't much which is original in her political…
它显得幼稚仅仅是因为它是理想主义的。如果你读过她的非虚构作品，《浪漫主义宣言》（The Romantic Manifesto）或许能让你明白背后的逻辑。艺术是理想的领域，而非现实。（我经常打比方说，洞穴壁画家浪费时间去画那些干瘪无肉的牛（现实中可能就是……
Its naive only becaue it is idealist. If you have read her non-fiction, The Romantic Manifesto might give you the reasoning behind it. Art is the realm of the ideal, not the real. (I often give the analogy of the cave painters wasting their time painting skinny meatless cattle (which may have been…
……重新审视她的哲学。如果你还在的话，有什么推荐的书吗？《客观主义认识论导论》（Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology）值得一读吗？我读过《自私的美德》（Virtue of Selfishness），感觉还行——我更喜欢《浪漫主义宣言》（The Romantic Manifesto），觉得她在里面的思想阐述得更完善。
…another look at her philosophy. If you're still here, any books you'd recommend? Is Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology worth the read? I read Virtue of Selfishness which was OK -- I preferred the Romantic Manifesto as I felt her ideas in there were better worked out.
……翻翻评论历史就会发现我经常在 HN 上聊她，那是因为我觉得计算机科学家能从学习她的作品中获益匪浅。《客观主义认识论导论》（Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology）和《浪漫主义宣言》（The Romantic Manifesto）收录了她关于意识和认知最深刻的著作，也是我推荐的书。http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/consciousness.html 是个不错的先导内容。http://aynrandlexicon.com/ayn-rand-works/introduction-to-obj...……
…comment history you'll see I talk about her a lot on HN, and that's because I think computer scientists will gain immense value from studying her works. Introdution to Objectivist Epistemology and The Romantic Manifesto contain her deepest writings on consciousness and cognition and are the books I'd recommend. http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/consciousness.html is a good taster. http://aynrandlexicon.com/ayn-rand-works/introduction-to-obj...…
我很好奇你的背景是什么，竟然觉得《浪漫主义宣言》（The Romantic Manifesto）读起来很“轻松”。对我来说可一点都不轻松。至于那本书的难度，其主题是范围最广的整合之一，因为她在书中解释了艺术的心理学目的，而这正是我……
I'd be curious to know your background such that The Romantic Manifesto was an "easy" read. It was not easy for me. As for the difficulty of that book, the topic is one of the widest possible integrations in that she explains the psychological purpose of art, something I…
……理性和武力本质上是与人打交道的仅有的两种手段，因此“不首先使用武力”成了基本的社会原则。（对于前面提到的诚实读者，说服我的书是《浪漫主义宣言》（The Romantic Manifesto）和《客观主义认识论导论》（Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology），尽管《自私的美德》（Virtue of Selfishness）可能是最容易入门的起点。当我研究了诺齐克对兰德的著名批评后，我得出的结论是他这个人非常……
…reason and force were essentially the only two means of dealing with men, making non-initiation of force the fundamental social principle. (For said honest readers, the books which persuaded me were The Romantic Manifesto and Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, though Virtue of Selfishness is probably the easiest starting point. Once I studied Nozick's famous criticism of Rand, I concluded that he was someone very…