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Ayn Rand believed she was doing rational philosophy, but the work that actually made her powerful was mythopoetic and psychological.
Drawn from what Jennifer Burns said
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- Jennifer Burns Historian of ideas at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution
So, she thought of herself as rational. She thought of rationality as what she was doing, but she was actually doing a kind of mythopoetic psychological work as well.
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