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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

    My Ethical Theory and Rand's

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    My Ethical Theory and Rand’s Perception of mind-independent existence is fundamental to human consciousness, though not the whole of what is fundamental in human consciousness. “Existence exists, we live.” The act of grasping that statement implies that things exist, including you and I conscious living selves, our consciousness being something alive and being the faculty of perceiving that which exists. No one understanding the statement “Existence exists,” whether uttered, signed, or

    The Transporter Problem

    DonAthos
    By DonAthos,
    In another recent thread, I was invited to make this one to explore what I'm calling "the transporter problem." In quick summary then, the "problem" considers the famous Star Trek transporter. It purports to disassemble a person (into whatever constituent elements) and then reassemble that person in identical fashion (and perhaps from the same constituent elements) at some distance. In Star Trek, people routinely utilize this technology; however (granting that this would someday be feasible

    Reblogged:Louisiana Trying to Schedule Mifepristone

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    "The fact of birth is an absolute -- that is, up to that moment, the child is not an independent, living organism. It's part of the body of the mother. But at birth, a child is an individual, and has the rights inherent in the nature of a human individual." -- Ayn Rand*** A report at Popular Information reveals the the still-growing threat anti-abortion theocrats pose to reproductive-age women in Louisiana. The headline is bad enough: "Louisiana Lawmakers Insist Child Rape Victims Must Carry Th

    HOW CAN OBJECTIVISM BECOME A DOMINANT IDEOLOGY?

    rohintest
    By rohintest,
    MAPPING FUTURE OF OBJECTIVISM   HOW CAN OBJECTIVISM BECOME A DOMINANT IDEOLOGY?   INTRODUCTION The article is for long time Objectivists only. I think at this point only long time Objectivists can clearly visualize the logistics for making the ideology mainstream. Philosophy of Kant, Christianity, and Islam being examples of mainstream ideologies. Personally, I have been reading Ayn Rand and Objectivist literature for more than 20 years now.  

    Brainworks

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Neural Representations of Physics Concepts "Considerable advances have been made in developing brain-based theories of semantic knowledge, such as knowledge of concrete objects or emotions. Brain-imaging research has uncovered sets of brain systems that collectively contain the neural representations of such concepts, including information about the way the human body interacts with them (in the case of objects) or their intensity (in the case of emotions; Just, Cherkassky, Aryal, & Mit

    Washington DC Area?

    Lex Swan
    By Lex Swan,
    If there aren't any Objectivists in the Northern VA/Washington DC area, I completely understand. I've never met any, and I was just curious!  I am a terrible member of my generation. I am 22 years old and have basically no online presence. I am also an Objectivist, so that sort of speaks for itself. I don't really want to be on the Internet, but I was just awfully curious what other people who are fans of the books and the philosophy were like. I thought it was very funny that Washington DC

    How is existence meaningful as an axiom?

    8g9
    By 8g9,
    How is existence meaningful as an axiom. (I messed up the topic accidentally. My apologies)

    Land/Real Property Ownership in regards to Nations

    Easy Truth
    By Easy Truth,
    The conflicts over national ownership of land seem to be the most likely cause for World War Three, as opposed to ownership of intellectual property, or unattached property. Land seems to be the most incendiary issue. I have not seen people be willing to die over the right to speak a language, or have they? There are multiple conflicts that can be reduced to a conflict over land, that seem to be painted as conflict over ideology or identity. There is the Ukraine War over sections of

    Israelo-Palestinian Conflict: 2023 Edition

    AlexL
    By AlexL,
    Breaking News -- Israel Under Attack     

    Text to Image

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    There is an AI group on Facebook at which, a few days ago, I made the following post. In the first Comment to the following, I'll show a response it got from another member of the group. "It has been my experience that when humans make films containing settings of nature or industry from scenes described in literature, they do not measure up to pictures in my mind that I have when reading the text. Pretty sure that will be the same when AI makes scenes from word descriptions, however well.

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