bobo0100 wrote:hello and welcome to the forum king. nice to see a satinest join the community. I look forword to descusing Anton's philosophy.
Calling it a philosophy is a stretch. It's more of a boy band.
LaVeyan Satanism is based on a poor/illiterate understanding of Ayn Rand's Objectivism mixed with some "magick" and random rebellious sounding rhetoric to appeal to angsty teens who are mad at god and/or their parents, which is arguably an improvement over Rand since Objectivism is pretty much
the worst thing there is (yes, worse than Christian fundamentalism, and that's hard to say) and any deviation from it can only be less bad than the worst thing- however, it's pretty close so it doesn't get much credit for that (although his branding was clever- I'll give him that, he was a good business man).
Objectivism, in turn, isn't anything resembling a legitimate philosophy (and it's not taken seriously by anybody who cares about legitimate philosophy) and is a corruption of Kant's Deontology - something Rand never understood in her life, being a delusional lunatic (despite espousing something very similar, she hated Deontology, which would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad).
Kant - now we start to approach legitimate philosophy - did a lot of real and respectable work. Some of the work he did around deontology, and in attempt to explain his system was even good, but deontology itself, and namely the categorical imperative it relies on, was his biggest blunder (one he never corrected before his death).
Kant, to his credit, recognized some of the weakness when he said "if God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him"- because deontology has no grounding, no bearing, without a theistic lawgiver (although what he failed to understand is that even a theistic lawgiver doesn't provide that bearing when you ask the right questions).
To make a long history lesson short:
Deontology is logically false (the categorical imperative is inconsistent), and even its creator recognized that it required a god (although it still doesn't work
with one, at least it's not as transparently wrong). Rand misunderstood deontology and tried to formulate her own version, which amounted to a joke in the philosophical world that to this day conservatives still don't understand but that nobody else takes seriously (like creationism is in biology). LaVey thought Randian Objectivism was pretty kewl and totally reasonable because he was an idiot, and decided to use it as a basis of his satanic-theme-park religion (nothing against satanic theme parks, that actually sounds cool, but Objectivism seriously poisons everything it touches).
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