Greg Salmieri
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last heard Jan 2021
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Well thank you.
I think I've benefited from it too and from my earlier appearances.
Elucidations · Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand's moral philosophy · 15 Jul 2015
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Thank you,
nice to be
Uh she definitely thought of herself as a philosopher, and she was in fact engaged with conversation to a certain professional philosophers.
She had a a friendship for some time with John Hospers and they spoke quite a bit, and there are some other examples.
But she did see herself as outside of and separate from academic philosophy.
She wasn't aiming to be a philosophy professor or to write articles in journals.
I do think this is uncommon if we think about the people who we recently think about as philosophers.
But if you think about, you know, Descartes or Locke or someone, I mean there are a lot of examples, and indeed some of the most important examples in the history of thought, of philosophers who were outside of the academy or the mainstream institutions of their day and were posing challenges to the kind of main ideas, doctrines, and methods that were common in those institutions.
And I think thinking about her
in that light as that type of a figure will put off the question of what stature is she at, because comparing her to someone like Locke is, you know, a a big claim.
But just for the moment, just thinking of the sociology of it, so to speak, thinking of her as a figure like that is very clarifying because a lot of the things that people notice about her, academic philosophers when they read her and find a bit startling or off putting, are things that you would have thought about
Locke, for example, if you were a scholastic reading him.
There's a kind of criticizing the tradition from a distance, taking kind of swipes at what these academics are doing that seem very fair to us when we read Locke saying them several hundred years later about the scholastics.
But if you were a scholastic instance at Oxford at the time would seem, how could you say we're all the same?
Don't you know the difference between the SCOIS and the you know whatever it is?
Um so I think.
think keeping in mind that kind of a sociological fact about her and where she's coming from
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