Common Sense for Objectivists: Five Reasons for Fans of Ayn Rand to Study Thomas Reid
By Jon Hersey
Ayn Rand said that the only names in philosophy she could recommend were “the three As: Aristotle, Aquinas, and Ayn Rand.”1 She also tipped her hat to Francis Bacon, John Locke, and the American founders.2 But in the long line of thinkers before Rand, there were others who groped toward an objective basis of knowledge and morality, some of whom made signi…
