John Hospers on His Friendship with Ayn Rand

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John Hospers talks about his friendship with Ayn Rand at an International Society of Individual Liberty event in 1996. He talks about her mannerisms and aesthetic tastes, her writing style, the kinds of people she surrounded herself with, and memorable conversations they shared regarding philosophy.
John Hospers was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Southern California. He was also the first Libertarian Party Presidential candidate in 1972.
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@LanceCo. Месяц назад

I knew John Hospers for about fifteen years. He was a very nice man. I had many conversations about everyday life with him but never about philosophy. Although I only have a high school education he never treaded me like any less of a conversation than some of the people he had associated with or talked to in his life.

@WarVideo 12 лет назад

Search "Ayn Rand's Break with John Hospers" By Harry Binswanger to get the story on his break with Ayn Rand.

@DexterGraphic 2 месяца назад

Thank you! That reference was very helpful.

@Orson2u 3 года назад

I used to meet Hospers at summer “Editors Conferences” for Liberty magazine in the 1990s. Unfortunately, the editor in chief died and they ended. I miss those. I not only enjoyed them, I looked forward to meeting people like John there, in other fields.

@EarthSurferUSA 6 лет назад

When I tell people I would love to live in a most exciting Laissez-faire society based on individual liberty, they think that is nuts, and there needs to be some governmental control, (ignoring a court system that is possible, that protects individual liberty). But those same people will also say, the closer to lassiez-faire and individual liberty we can get to, the more civil and prosperity we will earn. Hmmmmm.

@robertromero8692 5 лет назад

Hospers inferred that Rand liked Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff because they were Russian. I've suspected for some time that she didn't like Mozart for being Austrian or Beethoven for being German. Her characterization of Beethoven's music as malevolent was nonsense.

@DrMackSplackem 3 года назад

I just want to hear her opinion of Stravinsky. When I want to hear something malevolent, I go to him.

@Orson2u 3 года назад

@@DrMackSplackem Le sacre....

@Orson2u 3 года назад

Rand’s aesthetics were rather limited and therefore limiting. But in salubrious as well as self-denying ways. Nevertheless, does nineteenth century Romanticism find a better or deeper defender in the twentieth century?

@DrMackSplackem 3 года назад

@@Orson2u Oh for sure. Petroushka as well, though in a much less direct fashion. On the other hand, I also dig his Royal March for precisely the opposite reason.

@saichandu8554 3 года назад

@@Orson2u how're her aesthetics limited? Can you elaborate with an example

@Gorboduc 8 месяцев назад

If I had to listen to this guy whittering on about every little punctuation mark, I would have excommunicated him too. I like how he never says Rand disagreed with him, she just "dislikes" things, or "doesn't have sympathy", or gets angry for reasons he can't conceive. This is why not being accepted by academic philosophers is a badge of honor!

@dcissignedon Год назад

The philosophy contained in Atlas Shrugged is excellent, but as a work of art the book is awful. Among many other flaws are these two: 1) the characters are cartoonish, and 2) a work of fiction should not resort to a character in the story lecturing the reader for over 60 pages (I think that's about how long Galt's speech was, but I'm not sure, I read the book more than 0 years ago).