Ayn Rand and Objectivism

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Just for conversation--who are some representative samples of the relativistic postmodern stuff that passes for philosophy today? Just curious.

Ask any pomo and they will deny that they believe in a vicious relativism (no absolutes). Only college sophomores spout that nonsense. What they are more likely to say is that all truth-claims are conditioned by one's environment, etc. To perhaps it close to home in the PCA--truth claims are conditioned by the conservative's guilt in white sins 100 years ago.

As for examples:
John Caputo.
Ralschke, Next Reformation, GloboChrist.
Some of James KA Smith, though his earlier writings are good.
 
You would think that would get conservatives off the hook.

At one time in my life I was a hyper-right wing communitarian. I took all of the arguments from guys like Alasdair MacIntyre and came to right-wing conclusions. I found out that liberals get nervous when you use postmodern arguments to deconstruct the government.
 
I don't believe that it has been pointed out that Rand was a disciple of none other than Friedrich Nietzsche, and this shows in her philosophy of objectivism. Like Nietzsche, Rand had nothing but contempt for the Christian tradition and saw it as a roadblock to the new man who should move beyond good and evil.

Objectivism was nothing but a synthesis of this Nietzscheanism with Aristotle's idea that existence is identical with itself. I'm not terribly sure that any reconciliation between Randian objectivism and Christianity would be convincing.
 
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