Where Ayn Rand and I Part Ways

 I am an ethical egoist, a normative egoist--as I believe Ayn Rand is also--but she and I part ways regarding how the universal principle  of moderation in all things can only be honored if one admits that contradictions are real, valuable and must be dealt with—she, the purist promoter of Aristotelian logic will stomach none of that--look what she wrote on Page 28 of her book, The Virtues of Selfishness: "It means that one must never desire effect without causes, and that one must never enact a cause without assuming full responsibility for its effects--that one must never act like a zombie, i.e., without knowing one's own purposes and motives--that one must never make any decisions, form any convictions or seek any values out of context, i.e., apart from or against total, integrated sum of one's knowledge--and, above all, that one must never seek to get away with contradictions."

I have news for Ayn: the way the world is both/and more than either/or but it is both.