The Central Scrutinizer (She's Backkkk!!!!!)

Redstate.com ^ | 23 January 2007 | .cnI redruM

[Psycho_Runner]

"Hilary's a socialist, but there's no need to drag a perfectly valid term, like "the common good," through the mud, even if Hilary uses the term."

I suggest you read "Atlas Shrugged". There is no valid term as the common good. None what so ever. As a matter of fact Ayn Rand mentions that Common Good is just is evil if a religion was preaching it. Society prospers only when individual rights are protected. The common good is a trade off to the lowest common denominator of humans, and that is need. This creates the illusion the more needy your are, the more glorified you are. READ THE BOOK.

[Aquinasfan]

I suggest you read "Atlas Shrugged".

I've read almost all her books. She claimed to be a fan of Aristotle. I doubt she more than glanced at his writings.

Let's look at her atheism and philosophical realism, to begin with. She claimed to believe both, but one contradicts the other. If the mind reduces to matter in motion, as is necessary under an atheist rubric, then how can she account for certain knowledge of anything? What objective standard could she measure her mental machine against as a standard of truth, if her mind reduces to a fallible machine?

Secondly, how can she provide a logically coherent account of the self? Does the self reduce to thought? Then there would be as many selves as thoughts. Does the self reduce to a scanning mechanism in the brain? Then there would be as many selves as acts of scanning, etc., ad infinitum.

Philosophically, she's a lightweight.

Compare her less than systematic thought to St. Thomas Aquinas.