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Saturday, September 17 - 9:18am

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When I first began seriously studying Objectivism in 1995, besides Rand's own writings, I found Peikoff's OPAR, David Kelly's Truth and Tolerance and Merrill's book invaluable in helping me to understand Objectivism. I heartily recommend The Ideas of Ayn Rand. Thank you for posting this review, Adam.

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Saturday, September 17 - 11:27am

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Of course his section on Rand's aesthetics is terribly off-based -- but that is to be expected of those who know little of aesthetics anyway, especially in terms of actually being an artist or sculptor or composer... the same is said of Kamhi and Torres...

Other than that - yes, Merrill's book is wonderful to read...

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Saturday, September 17 - 2:03pm

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I third that notion.

Merrill built a great bridge from Objectivism to the lay public, complete with clever hoists to lift one and all up from anti-conceptuality -- up into the realm of ideas. He wrote so well for the lay public (or at least he wrote in such a tediously clear fashion as to extend the reach of Objectivism into the minds of the lay public)

Ed