"Similarly with Wright, who started out as a hardcore Objectivist, and then converted to Christianity"
Curiously, this does not surprise me in the least. Cf. David Horowitz, who simply traded one set of extreme views for another. People who do this are, from what I can tell, simply interested in an absolute -- whatever the form that absolute may take.
I should dig out my old essay about "might makes wrong" sometime and repost it.
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Date: 2009-08-13 07:19 pm (UTC)Curiously, this does not surprise me in the least. Cf. David Horowitz, who simply traded one set of extreme views for another. People who do this are, from what I can tell, simply interested in an absolute -- whatever the form that absolute may take.
I should dig out my old essay about "might makes wrong" sometime and repost it.