On 2010-02-24 Dianne Durante, New York, NY wrote: I was a straight-A student in high school and college, but I didn´t learn to think until I read Ayn Rand. Her philosophy (specifically her epistemology, which deals with how you know what you know) answers those thorny but important questions that put my philosophy professors in a tizzy. Does the fact that a pencil in water looks broken mean you can´t trust anything your senses tell you? Do words (concepts) correspond to something to reality, or can you use them as politicians do, to mean anything you want? Can you know anything for certain?
Of Ayn Rand´s nonfiction books, this one was definitely the most challenging to get through: I had to rethink so much of what I ´knew.´ In the long run, though, it was the most worthwhile. Her demonstration of how to think showed me how to use reason to deal with people and the world. Because of her theories, I see the world as a place that I can understand, and where I can not only survive but ultimately achieve my own happiness. If you´ve read Atlas Shrugged, think of the scene where the heroine wakes up in a sunlit valley, smiles, and asks, ´We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?´ The ideas in ITOE are the foundation for that kind of smile.. And summed up by saying Take this seriously...and the rest falls into place. Currently Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Expanded Second Edition has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Harry Binswanger claimed Today man´s mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that torrent of nihilism, and she provides the alternative in this eloquent presentation of the essential nature--and power--of man´s conceptual faculty. She offers a startlingly original solution to the problem that brought about the collapse of modern philosophy: the problem of universals. This brilliantly argued, superbly written work, together with an essay by philosophy professor Leonard Peikoff, is vital reading for all those who seek to discover that human beings can and should live by the guidance of reason.
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