Title: [trite] philosopher but good essayist
Review: I have found that the one thing most of Rand's followers have in common is their ignorance of any philosophy that isn't hers. Rand was not original. Every one of her ideas was said by other philosophers many times before. Reading Rand, you realize that she is ignorant about this fact. A few graduate courses in the history of philosophy would have humbled her as all she did was to re-invent the wheel. It must come as a shock to her followers when they read the truly great philosophers and find out that Rand was unoriginal - and a lightweight.What Rand was, though, was a good writer. Her essays show her ability to make philosophy understandable. She was a lively writer. It is too bad that she couldn't be happy with just being a philosophical popularizer (being to philosophy what Sagan and Asimov were to science).
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