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On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies - David Sloan Wilson

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Appeal of Empiricism for Rand

The idea that people can just sit around and logically reason their way through things is this real hubris. The whole apparatus of science struggles to apprehend reality. We can't do it as individuals back to complexity. There's always been an intentional component to human cultural evolution. People were always striving, thinking, attempting to change things.

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