Have we become a society of Randians? And is the Randian, self-worshipping self a product of Christianity?

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R) includes Greek philosophy, especially Plato and the Platonists. Slightly earlier than Augustine, Saint Basil of Caesarea issued a pamphlet decrying the claim of some Christians
What do I always identify as the main principle of modern liberalism? The belief that the self, namely one's own...

The Cameralists

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of "practical philosophy" - had been on the curriculum of Medieval German universities , it was largely ignored by the Scholastics , disdained as a poor field for the ex

Swami Vidyatmananda "The Making of a Devotee" Chapter 7

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seemed to justify this philosophy. The justice of territorial and economic colonialism was not to be doubted, for did any other nation possess an equally high standard of living?
Chapter 7 of the Autobiography of the late Swami Vidyatmananda (1913-2000), one of the first westerners to become a monk of the Ramakrishna-Order of Inda

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