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    Objectivism Is The Everyman's Philosophy

    In the universe, what you see is what you get,

    figuring it out for yourself is the way to happiness,

    and each person's independence is respected by all

  • Rand's Philosophy in Her Own Words

    • "Metaphysics: Objective Reality" "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed/Wishing won’t make it so." "The universe exists independent of consciousness"
    • "Epistemology: Reason" "You can’t eat your cake and have it, too." "Thinking is man’s only basic virtue"
    • "Ethics: Self-interest" "Man is an end in himself." "Man must act for his own rational self-interest" "The purpose of morality is to teach you[...] to enjoy yourself and live"
    • "Politics: Capitalism" "Give me liberty or give me death." "If life on earth is [a man's] purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being"

  • Objectivism Online Chat

    Reblogged:Former IBD, the Bell Tolls for Thee

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    For years, I've heard complaints from the less-liberty-friendly parts of the conservative movement that the news aggregator Drudge Report, lost its mojo when Donald Trump won in 2016. Today, I see that one of the few conservative sites I still respected, Issues and Insights has joined that bandwagon en route to providing a sort of short, annotated bibliography of alternatives. Before I get to that, let's consider the following complaint about a recent set of headlines at the the site started b

    Looking for Locke (Edwin A.)

    HowardRoarkSpaceDetective
    By HowardRoarkSpaceDetective,
    Hey, does anyone know where I might access some of Edwin Locke's recorded lectures? He has them all listed on his website (below), but the download links are dead now. https://edwinlocke.com/recorded-lectures/ I sent him a message but wikipedia says he's 85 so who knows if he'll respond.

    Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    The essentials of the essentials gets one to the standing-on-one-foot essentials of a theory. So for relativity, special and general, one gets the standing-on-one-foot essentials: frame-invariance of the form of physical laws, frame-invariance of a finite upper limit of velocity, and the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass. For the standing-on-one-foot essentials of the philosophy of Epicurus, one gets: don't worry, pursue modest pleasure. But for a statement of the essentials of

    Reblogged:Dobbs is 'States' Rights' on Steroids

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    In a thought-provoking analysis, Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times observes of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade:Re-read that last sentence. I can't count the number of times I have read news articles or opinion pieces that pertain to individual rights, suspected that the term rights appears nowhere in the piece, and confirmed my suspicion with a negative result by searching for the term. Here, we not only have that near-forgotten word, but the whole phrase. There is promise! Boui

    Reblogged:A Man Tries the 'Back-up-to-Park' Fad

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Back when I lived in Maryland, I noticed that large numbers of people backed into parking spaces, rather than simply driving into them. I tried to learn why then, and the answers I could find basically consisted of vague assertions that it was "safer," sometimes festooned with statistics that may or may not have been inaccurate, incorrectly applied to the question, or irrelevant. Such drivers stand out to me, and have had me scratching my head since. Sometimes, they waste my time in parking lot

    Reblogged:"Racism:" A Still-Needed Classic

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A few years ago, I came across a Marginal Revolution post by Tyler Cowen, who was re-reading the collection of essays first published as The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, and then later in an expanded edition known as The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Regarding its chapter on racism, Cowen cites a quote and expresses an admiration that I share:That would indeed be a wonderful thing, especially considering how far our culture has fallen short of Martin Luth

    Reblogged:Four Moving-In Wins

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. We're enjoying our larger, much less-cluttered house, and -- since we have a dining ROOM instead of just a dining area, that table stays clear -- which has lent itself to nightly dining there and, in turn to one of my favorite pastimes, cards. The kids are finally old enough to be interested in card games, and able to play them well enough that we now sometimes play spades after dinner. Image by Kowloonese, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.2. Citrus grows here on t

    Objectivism in Academia

    cliveandrews
    By cliveandrews,
    How are Objectivists treated in the academic arenta? I know nothing about academic philosophy, but I would infer that Objectivists might have a hard time getting along with others in the feild, or even face persecution from their peers. Thoughts?

    Reblogged:Multiple Perspectives in Advice Columns

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    I often look at advice columns on Thursday morning. Doing so today, I came across an "ask the readers" reply at Carolyn Hax's Washington Post column. While I'd never want to see my favorite columnists completely quit, I am glad that several of them toss one up for their readers to tackle from time to time. In this column, the questioner is having to deal with the emotions evoked by once again having a long-past, unrequited romantic interest back in her social circle. The reader replies run th

    2024 – from Princeton University Press

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution by Anne O'Donnell.   The Individualists by Matt Zwolinsky and John Tomasi

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