Re: Philosopher's Highest Score on the LSAT
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:59 am
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Wittgenstein would certainly have a hell of a personal statement. But Kant's that 180/4.0 guy who never did anything except sit in his room and study. And maybe go for an occasional stroll across campus.TTTLS wrote:I want to say Kant. Wittgenstein though would probably be a more appealing applicant to an admissions committee, with his personal statement focusing on his time as a POW.
Tiger-dad to a whole new levelJoeshan520 wrote:I read Mill's "Autobiography". His father sounded like a complete dick.
Have you read her nonfiction or just atlas and fountainhead? She certainly has flawed ideas like anyone, but she is definitely pretty intelligent. Just because you don't agree with her doesn't mean she doesn't have the intelligence for a good LSAT score.ams212 wrote:Seriously anyone who has ever read Ayn Rand (good books, very flawed philosophy) would know she doesn't belong on this list.
stillwater wrote:Ayn Rand is a hack.
RedBirds2011 wrote:Have you read her nonfiction or just atlas and fountainhead? She certainly has flawed ideas like anyone, but she is definitely pretty intelligent. Just because you don't agree with her doesn't mean she doesn't have the intelligence for a good LSAT score.ams212 wrote:Seriously anyone who has ever read Ayn Rand (good books, very flawed philosophy) would know she doesn't belong on this list.
stillwater wrote:Ayn Rand is a hack.
I'm assuming you probably never actually read her in any detail. Maybe fountainhead or maybe I'm wrong, but as someone who has read every one of her books and is a critic of much of what she says, I still get pretty annoyed with how often a lot of supposed critics often completely miss the point and don't actually get her at all.albusdumbledore wrote:RedBirds2011 wrote:Have you read her nonfiction or just atlas and fountainhead? She certainly has flawed ideas like anyone, but she is definitely pretty intelligent. Just because you don't agree with her doesn't mean she doesn't have the intelligence for a good LSAT score.ams212 wrote:Seriously anyone who has ever read Ayn Rand (good books, very flawed philosophy) would know she doesn't belong on this list.stillwater wrote:Ayn Rand is a hack.
Wittgenstein had more brainpower than Russell. Neither of the two would have disagreed with that. I would probably rather hang out with and be friends with Russell, but wittgenstein was a freak of nature when it came to intelligence.twentypercentmore wrote:Where the frack is Bertrand Russell? I would bet anything he'd get a 180 first go around.
Bertrand Russell wrote:His criticism, 'tho I don't think he realized it at the time, was an event of first-rate importance in my life, and affected everything I have done since. I saw that he was right, and I saw that I could not hope ever again to do fundamental work in philosophy.
+1MachineLemon wrote:Russell and Gödel should probably be on the list.
I don't think that's the problem. The problem is that she's listed amongst top philosophers, and she just doesn't belong in that list at all. So many novelists--Camus, Kafka, and Huxley are three that come to mind--can be considered intelligent and even have some philosophical tendencies but would never be considered as philosophers. I think many people would put Camus, Kafka, and Huxley above Ayn Rand in terms of philosophical contributions (and they would definitely rank those three authors as stronger and better novelists than Rand).RedBirds2011 wrote:Have you read her nonfiction or just atlas and fountainhead? She certainly has flawed ideas like anyone, but she is definitely pretty intelligent. Just because you don't agree with her doesn't mean she doesn't have the intelligence for a good LSAT score.ams212 wrote:Seriously anyone who has ever read Ayn Rand (good books, very flawed philosophy) would know she doesn't belong on this list.
She's not a philosopher, but I'll be totally honest--I've never read one of her books. Whereas I've read multiple works by almost all of the rest of the list. She's always struck me as high school english class fodder. I would have been laughed out of the room if I'd told one of my philosophy profs I wanted to write a paper on Ayn Rand.RedBirds2011 wrote: I'm assuming you probably never actually read her in any detail. Maybe fountainhead or maybe I'm wrong, but as someone who has read every one of her books and is a critic of much of what she says, I still get pretty annoyed with how often a lot of supposed critics often completely miss the point and don't actually get her at all.