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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"
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    Necessity and Form in Truths

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Necessity and Form in Truths In this study, I firstly examine the Objectivist account of how Rand’s theory of concepts dissolves the customary distinction of truths into ones true in virtue of meaning and ones true in virtue of experience. Although that particular character of concepts in Rand’s mold of them does dissolve that wrong divide of truths—the analytic-synthetic divide—I advance an additional character of her theory, one more peculiar to hers, that also dissolves the A-S division,

    Fun Resource to Who and When in Mathematics

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    The MacTutor History of Mathematics

    Reblogged:'Not Collecting Stamps' Isn't a Hobby

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    "Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby." -- Penn Jillette *** Lately, articles about the increasing percentage of Americans who aren't "religious" -- like this and this -- have been popping up. Please consider the italicized quote above any time you encounter one of these. Why? Because (1) In today's increasingly tribalistic, anti-individualist Zeitgeist, it would appear that the first impulse is to lump together any group of people to which one can apply a label. (2) S

    Speaking of God

    monart
    By monart,
    Who are they, who are so many? They, who are all around us. They, of whom some of us may still be recovering from having been one of them. Who are they? What do they believe? How is it false? Know your enemy, know yourself.   Speaking of God Most of the world's population, 85%, reportedly believe in a God, over 6 billion people –- including 2.4 billion Christian (1.4B Catholic), 2 billion Islamic, and1.1 billion Hindu – all preaching and practicing selfless service to God and the

    Reblogged:Four Random Things

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. I mentioned finding a sandwich shop that sells muffulettas shortly after we moved to the New Orleans area. Wanting to know more about the origins of this local sandwich, I found an article about the Central Grocery, where Italian immigrants created it over a century ago. From the article:While I am happy to know that Central Grocery's muffulettas are available for purchase, the website tells me that my pilgrimage to the original store will have to wait for the completi

    Reblogged:'Machiavellian' Triumphs and Traps

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    In a compilation of reader submissions for what she calls "Machiavellian Triumphs at Work," Alison Green presents the following crafty solution to a problem that would drive me crazy if I had to deal with it:Assuming this guy ignored polite requests or direction to stop blasting his office-mates out of their minds, this is a perfect solution: Either he did not know or did not care that everyone would hear things he'd rather they not hear. Now he knows and cares, even if he remains unable to rea

    What's the truth about realtors and commissions?

    Doug Morris
    By Doug Morris,
    The current online New York Times has an article claiming that real estate commissions in the USA were at the high rate of 6% because the National Association of Realtors had the power to enforce it and that this constituted a failure of the free market that required antitrust action to correct it.  Can anyone provide a good source explaining the real reason commissions were so high?   

    Israelo-Palestinian Conflict: 2023 Edition

    AlexL
    By AlexL,
    Breaking News -- Israel Under Attack     

    Reblogged:Malchow Flees Superstitious Taboo

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Over at Hot Air, Jazz Shaw discusses the decision by Democrat strategist Hal Malchow to go abroad in order to end his own life on his own terms, before he loses his mind to Alzheimer's Disease. Before this story broke, I was unaware that even in American states that have legalized physician-assisted suicide, the laws apply only to people with a fatal condition who will die in a few months. Malchow, after seeing his mother deteriorate with the disease, got himself tested for its genetic markers

    Reblogged:Rightist Autophagy

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Ed Driscoll, one of the bloggers at Instapundit, is fond enough of pointing out times when the left is at cross-purposes that he frequently starts off such posts with "Annals of Leftist Autophagy." There are now dozens of these, and it is conventional wisdom on the right that the left is a mess. The American right, having fallen under Donald Trump's sway, has -- from praising Trump as an Alinskyite and blaming "society" for bad behavior, all the way to embracing central planning -- increasingly

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