{"id":30724,"date":"2023-01-26T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T16:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30724"},"modified":"2023-01-24T18:01:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:01:32","slug":"on-philosophy-who-needs-it-by-ayn-rand-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/26\/on-philosophy-who-needs-it-by-ayn-rand-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"On Philosophy: Who Needs It?<\/em> by Ayn Rand (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI must have bought this cassette of of eBay around the turn of the century–or did I order it directly from Second Renaissance Books back in the day? In the 1990s, Second Renaissance published a lot of Ayn Randia, and maybe you could order stuff from its catalog or from the forms in the back of its books. I know I subscribed to The Intellectual Activist<\/em> (wow, that was still a going concern as late as 2021<\/a>, so maybe I saw ads in it (probably not). I even read Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand<\/em> and The Ominous Parallels<\/em> back in college. I was a pretty dedicated little-o objectivist back then.<\/p>\n

I found this audiocassette in one of the bins in my desk cubby; I am not sure why it was up there or why it was floating around. Perhaps it had been in a desk drawer and I moved it to the cubby at some point. I got it out with the intention of relocating it to our other collection of music audiocassettes, but when I saw the 2023 Winter Reading Challenge<\/a> has a “Listen to a Book” category, I thought maybe it was the text of the book of the same name, or maybe just the title essay. However, it’s a speech delivered at West Point in 1974 along with a little question and answer session. No doubt the title essay of the book comes from this speech and probably others she gave in the line, I could not in good conscience count it as listening to a book after all.<\/p>\n

You can hear the speech on YouTube:<\/p>\n