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EP #44 | Ayn Rand’s Critique of Nietzsche’s Ethics

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Are We Subjectivists?

Both rand and nit are rejecting the idea that there's some intrinsic source out there, a god that delivered absolute commandments. So clearly, for nature, there are different moralities for different kinds of people. But nicha is explicitly a subjectivist in the philosophical sense. There are nob ife facts theye are no intrinsic facts either giving rise to value. Genuine philosophers, however, are commanders and legislators. They say, thus it shall be their knowing is creating their creating is a legislation. Their will to truth is will to power.

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