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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:How Ideas Propagate

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Years ago, possibly through Alex Epstein's How to Talk to Anyone About Energy course or Don Watkins's Persuasion Mastery course, I recall one of the later steps of the process of persuasion being to point the other person to a book which will present whatever argument or viewpoint you are promoting in a comprehensive way. This makes perfect sense and mirrors my own experience. Way back in grad school, a big-L Libertarian contacted me after reading a few of my student newspaper columns, saying

    Dewey and Peikoff on Kant's Responsibility

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    This thread supersedes and will bring to completion the earlier thread of the same title here.

    presuppositional foundationalism in Objectivism

    David Tyson
    By David Tyson,
    I wish to respond to Boydstum's review of my article "Check Your Presuppostions: A New Kind of Foundationalism in Objectivism" published in JARAS.  ========== MY REPLY TO BOYDSTUN STEPHAN Boydstun   (https://forum.objectivismonline.com/index.php?/topic/33990-the-presuppositionalist-argument-for-the-axioms-of-objectivism/)   PRESUPPOSITION IS A KIND OF INFERENCE Presupposition is a kind of inference, according to my sources. For example, As one of the basic

    Reblogged:Four Nifty Finds

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge Happy Thanksgiving! Due to travel and family obligations, I'm taking all of next week off. See you on the 27th! *** Image by Suzy Brooks, via Unsplash, license.1. I remember using the Sumatra PDF reader on Windows some time back, but it was (or has since become) much more versatile than that, according to the blurb on its site:The bulk of my Windows usage is on machines other than my own, so I looked for (and found) a portable version that runs from a pen drive under Portab

    Reblogged:East Minus West Isn't Even Zero

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A story in the South China Morning Post that would be pilloried as an advertisement if it appeared in a reputable Western outlet title-gushes China Launches World's Fastest Internet With 1.2 Terabit Per Second Link, Years Ahead of Forecasts. The first thing that came to my mind was:But I went ahead and read the "news" anyway and remembered a few other things about this story that would be fishy, even if the claims are 100% true. Let's take a look at some of these:Cool, if true, but this is onl

    Reblogged:Tribalism vs. Clarity

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Within an analysis of the last election, the following sentence caught my eye:Liberal positions? I support both of these, but I am not a "liberal" -- at least in today's twisted sense of the term that implies leftist. Liberals might, however imperfectly, support reproductive rights and the freedom to ingest whatever one wants, but these are pro-liberty positions, and they contradict other "liberal" positions, such as decriminalizing petty theft or surgically mutilating children below the age o

    Reblogged:Two Thinkers on Hirsi Ali's Capitulation

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    In which a light going out signifies a wake-up call. I am glad to see that I was hardly the only one disappointed to learn that Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- who had traveled so far intellectually from her religious upbringing -- has chosen to profess religion. Yaron Brook does an outstanding job in his podcast (also embedded below) considering and addressing the points she made in her essay to that effect. The strength of Brook's presentation is that it is even-handed. He shows due respect for Hirsi Al

    Reblogged:A Machete for the Email Loop

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Image by Alexandre Saraiva Carniato, via Pexels, license.As valuable as email and other electronic communications are, they can sometimes cause unnecessary delays. Josh Thompson gives the common example of someone seeking a green light from his boss:Thompson then invites his readers to try a different turn of phrase the next time that situation arises:The second choice can obviously save several days. I've done things like this before, in situations that fall into the following two categories:

    A Study of Galt's Speech, by Onkar Ghate

    dream_weaver
    By dream_weaver,
    Based on the presentation A Study of Galt's Speech, by Onkar Ghate, the subject of an ARI e-mail in the ongoing celebration of Atlas Shrugged's sixtieth anniversary. In the introductory talk, near the end, Onkar raises the point that originally Miss Rand had written her first draft to address Objectivism in hierarchal order. This is confirmed in writing elsewhere, as well by an Ayn Rand associate and member of the audience, Harry Binswanger. Onkar offers the suggestion that it was reor

    Quote by E.B. Tylor

    HowardRoarkSpaceDetective
    By HowardRoarkSpaceDetective,
    I’m reading Edward Burnett Tylor’s Primitive Culture and the first chapter - introducing evidence for his theory that civilizations typically evolve from lower states to more advanced ones, rather than degrade from an initial “divine” state - finishes with this bit: “We may fancy ourselves looking on Civilization, as in personal figure she traverses the world; we see her lingering or resting by the way, and often deviating into paths that bring her toiling back to where she had passed by lo

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