12 minutes ago, Boydstun said:
Howard Roark Blowing Up Cortlandt Was Not Objectivist . . .
Test out key words in your questions such as “Roark, dynamite” on the search function on this site using the Search Everywhere to see if the issue has been discussed before. If so, and you have some further angle on it to explore, add it to the old thread, helping to created a many-faceted exploration and not just more words to be buried again in another year and not advancing understanding of current readers.
- Before posting this question, I did indeed do a search on this website for relevant discussions. I did not find any question or thread in which the actions and philosophy of the fictional character Howard Roark are held up against, and judged by, the nonfiction philosophical writings of Ayn Rand.
- I also searched the whole Internet, using Google, for discussions along these lines, but could find none.
- Therefore, my best guess is that the precise issue I am raising has not be raised before, or, at least, has not been widely discussed or examined.
- Of course, I could be wrong, and perhaps there are many other discussions of the precise issue I’m raising in this thread. But it is hard to be perfect, and I make no claims to that.
- Perhaps others here in this benevolent universe will kindly point me to prior relevant discussions that I failed to find.