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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:Firewood Is 'Cheaper,' Too

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Advocates of unreliable wind and solar energy frequently make the claim that these two energy sources are "cheaper" than fossil fuels -- as if countless individuals with power bills would fail to notice. (They do, but not because they are stupid. Read on.) A recent such claim popped up on a tech news aggregator I frequent, and drew a pretty decent comment in reply. The reply is, in part: The German electricity customer is getting screwed by all this "cheap" energy and in the name of a goal --

    Conflicting Conclusions and therefore Conflict of Interest

    Easy Truth
    By Easy Truth,
    I have never been able to integrate the idea that "conflicts of interest do not occur between rational men". Although from an abstract (robotic sense), I can see that the inputs to a computer program will produce the same outputs (without random number generation of course). It sometimes can be interpreted as a form of determinism too. I have assumed that I don't understand it and put is aside. Based on the current presidential contest one can conclude that rational me

    Correspondence and Coherence blog

    merjet
    By merjet,
    I didn't see a forum where I thought this post fits well. If the moderators want to move it to another forum , that's okay. Anyway, I've been posting to this blog for a while, and believe some would find an interest in a couple recent ones. LeBron, Trump, Altruism Marconi #6   This is one of a series of 11 that I wrote while reading a biography of Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless technology and often credited with inventing the radio. The post refers to John Galt.  

    Conceptual Frequency List

    Jonathan Weissberg
    By Jonathan Weissberg,
    I'm wondering if we can port some of the methods of one particular language learning approach into philosophic integration and keen to get other's thoughts.  Part of the motivation here is that I'm finding as I learn philosophy there's still so much that's very vague even if it 'makes sense.' I know that it's not 100% integrated or understood since I can't just necessarily rattle off real-world examples for each concept and I stumble a lot trying to articulate what the concept is or I start

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