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"Mr. Sciabarra thinks that it helped her to look at ideas in a wider context, and to formulate her rejection of dualism in all its forms, from good versus evil to mind versus body."

Rand rejected the dualism of mind vs. body in favor of a unity of complements, not synthesis of opposites. She never rejected the dualism of good vs. evil - in fact she repeatedly and explicitly advocated their opposition. Where do you see in her writing a synthesis between Capitalism and Communism, Egoism and Altruism, knowledge and fantasy, or between Dagny Taggart and Lilian Rearden?

-- Michelle Fram Cohen, M.A. Comparative Literature, SUNY at Binghamton (posted 4/19, 10:15 a.m., E.D.T.)

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