http://www.oocities.com/athens/olympus/2178/merrill.html
Merrill's critique only concerns the style and manner of Rand's writing
in ITOE.
For example, 'Rand mentions Kant repeatedly (he seems to be the guy she loves to hate), but there is absolutely nothing that is specific. She never quotes Kant directly, but when she apparently feels a need to justify her view of Kant she instead quotes from a book published in 1873 by Henry Mansel whom she describes as “a Kantian”. Again, I am not an expert on Kant, but who is this guy Mansel? I can find him mentioned in none of the histories of philosophy I have, and he is not mentioned in the fairly extensive bibliography on Kant in Lewis Beck’s 18th-Century Philosophy. So direct reference to Kant is replaced by reference to “a Kantian” (and a very obscure one at that). Why do this? Why not show how Kant himself held the position that is being attacked? There is no justification for this sort of thing. Again, poor scholarship. (I do not, by the way, believe that even the quote from Mansel supports Rand’s view of Kant. But I will not argue that point now.)'
I am at present reading the Mansel book quoted by Rand. If Mansel was a Kantian, he was only 2/3 Kantian at best. Did Rand know about neo-Kantianism? At least Mansel has the distinction of reading the Critique of Pure Reason, and in the original German. Rand had never distinguished herself in that way, either with the German original or any English translation.
Mansel trashed Kant's literary style. And yet, he excused it as a natural product of the German language which delights itself in never-ending sentences and multi-syllabic expressions. Mansel seemed to approve of the Aesthetic and Analytic sections of the Critique, but utterly opposed the Dialectic of Pure Reason. He held that this section had led to the numerous metaphysical errors that future German philosophers were guilty of.
Upon reading these key sections of Mansel's book, I can only conclude that Rand "borrowed" many of her future ideas from Henry Mansel's Letters, Lectures, and Reviews.
Monday, October 11, 2010
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Merrill's commentary on any topic is almost uniformly caustic, bombastic and destined from the outset to demonstrate that his statements can disappear up his own anus without the use of hands.
His unbelievably conceited CV at NCSU (what a prestigious institution - all those undergraduates named "Bubba") simply reveals that he failed as an academic after 10 years (yeah, tenured...right)
and tried to make some money instead in industry.
That didn't work and since he's such an arrogant prick whom no-one can work with, he had to take his bat and ball home and start his own $2 job working from his basement.
Of course the details of his career summary are merely long winded masturbation. Tedious self stroking that he wished had been voluntarily performed by at least ONE person in his life. But a momentary glance at that face reveals that the only people who have touched that penis have been both intoxicated and paid for the effort.
With a BS in 1969 it is clear that the cosmic bowel motion that removes him from the planet will not be long coming and the constipation he has caused to the careers and zest for life of so many will shortly come to an end.
Luckily Gary knows everything anyway so maybe he can cheat death. His NCSU resume shows that a long neck can substitute for a small penis every time- especially if no-one else will touch it for you.
Look for yourself from his NCSU page:
"This pursuit requires a complex interweaving and understanding of several overlapping disciplines that include classical philosophy, formal methods (logic, semantics, and mathematical modeling), computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, information science, and the subject matter of the special sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics."
Fuck me. What doesn't he know?
Gaz lives in a permanent state of hemorrhoid inflammation. Failed academic, failed businessman and now part time teaching hack at Forest Gump University.
Happily enough Gaz has an entry in wikipaedia since the Wik is written and developed by Comp Sci nerds usually- many of whom had their dick sucked by Gary. I mean Monica Lewinsky has an entry too. But at least she had the muscle coordination to swallow- a technique Gary never mastered.
Yep there you have it. How one mouth breathing, twisted fuck, incapable of insemination without cocaine for her and a cattle prod up the ass (for him) can suck the life out of the universe while rewriting his own failed history into a CV that makes Einstein, Newton, Turing, Von Neumann and Gauss look like retards.
Thank Fuck Gary is here to save life as we know it before he shuffles off this mortal coil.
I hope he takes his bullshit CV so that he can give it to old Peter at the Pearly Gates.
Shit, the almighty might be looking for another job once Gaz turns up.
Oh and did I forget to remind the prick to go and fuck himself?
Jeeez that felt good.
Merrill's commentary on any topic is almost uniformly caustic, bombastic and destined from the outset to demonstrate that his statements can disappear up his own anus without the use of hands.
His unbelievably conceited CV at NCSU (what a prestigious institution - all those undergraduates named "Bubba") simply reveals that he failed as an academic after 10 years (yeah, tenured...right)
and tried to make some money instead in industry.
That didn't work and since he's such an arrogant prick whom no-one can work with, he had to take his bat and ball home and start his own $2 job working from his basement.
Of course the details of his career summary are merely long winded masturbation. Tedious self stroking that he wished had been voluntarily performed by at least ONE person in his life. But a momentary glance at that face reveals that the only people who have touched that penis have been both intoxicated and paid for the effort.
With a BS in 1969 it is clear that the cosmic bowel motion that removes him from the planet will not be long coming and the constipation he has caused to the careers and zest for life of so many will shortly come to an end.
Luckily Gary knows everything anyway so maybe he can cheat death. His NCSU resume shows that a long neck can substitute for a small penis every time- especially if no-one else will touch it for you.
Look for yourself from his NCSU page:
"This pursuit requires a complex interweaving and understanding of several overlapping disciplines that include classical philosophy, formal methods (logic, semantics, and mathematical modeling), computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, information science, and the subject matter of the special sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics."
Fuck me. What doesn't he know?
Gaz lives in a permanent state of hemorrhoid inflammation. Failed academic, failed businessman and now part time teaching hack at Forest Gump University.
Happily enough Gaz has an entry in wikipaedia since the Wik is written and developed by Comp Sci nerds usually- many of whom had their dick sucked by Gary. I mean Monica Lewinsky has an entry too. But at least she had the muscle coordination to swallow- a technique Gary never mastered.
Yep there you have it. How one mouth breathing, twisted fuck, incapable of insemination without cocaine for her and a cattle prod up the ass (for him) can suck the life out of the universe while rewriting his own failed history into a CV that makes Einstein, Newton, Turing, Von Neumann and Gauss look like retards.
Thank Fuck Gary is here to save life as we know it before he shuffles off this mortal coil.
I hope he takes his bullshit CV so that he can give it to old Peter at the Pearly Gates.
Shit, the almighty might be looking for another job once Gaz turns up.
Oh and did I forget to remind the prick to go and fuck himself?
Jeeez that felt good.
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