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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

    Rand and Kant Being Friends

    KyaryPamyu
    By KyaryPamyu,
    Confused? I'll summarize one of the main texts of the Kantian tradition. How compatible is the Kantian framework with Objectivism? You be the judge. The book is F.W.J. Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), a famous work that enjoys the same status in the philosophical tradition as, let's say, Beethoven's Eroica symphony does in music. (Also check out Boydstun's thread on the same book, and some of his other explorations of Kantianism. ---------------- What causes the cha

    Reblogged:Blog Roundup

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. Over the years, I have taken to task various installments of National Review's war on Ayn Rand. (Here's a good one I'd forgotten about.) Scratch war on Ayn Rand in the name of accuracy: It's really a war against anyone learning what Ayn Rand had to say, and it began in earnest with an infamous non-review of Atlas Shrugged by professed ex-communist Whittaker Chambers. I recently learned via New Ideal that Leonard Peikoff penned a rebuttal, in the form of a letter-to-the-

    Reblogged:Four How-Tos

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge I often come across how-tos that I can't follow up on in the moment. I bookmark them for later. Here are four of them.*** Image by Pop & Zebra, via Unsplash, license.1. Before we decided to move, I was getting in a good hour-long walk most days, and I often read things from the web during those walks. Since many web pages are nightmares of poor formatting and blitz visitors with distracting A/V content, I began to wonder if I could use bookmarklets on my phone to fix t

    Reblogged:Jargon Alert: We're Like a Family = We'll Use You.

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Writing at Slate, Alison Green informs her readers that "The five little words [We're like a family here] should send you running from any job." Green cites several examples of people writing to her about dysfunctional workplaces whose management described them this way, and why it is a red flag:Green is absolutely right about this, and even quotes a letter from someone whose dysfunctional family life helped him catch on quicker to his dysfunctional workplace than he otherwise might have. Thi

    Age of Electricity

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Annual amount of electrical energy produced by countries of the world is here. Leading source for generation of electric power for each US state, 2001 v 2019. Information used by NYT (10/28/20) in making these maps is from the US Energy Information Agency.

    Federal Budget

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Appropriations - FY 2022 FY = Oct. 1 through Sept. 30 Budgets and Projections Thanks to Merlin Jetton for recent remarks and for notice of the site COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET.

    Reblogged:An Update on Milei, a Correction on Libertarianism

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    John Stossel gives an informative update on how things are going in Argentina, which elected as its president Javier Milei, a professed capitalist who campaigned on a promise to reduce the size of the government. One of the things I wondered about when I'd heard he was elected was how much he'd actually be able to accomplish. The short answer is more alone than an American president could:This is quite interesting and, given Milei's apparent popularity with Trumpists, I hope they notice the hu

    Causes of the Recent Inflation

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Bernanke's Analysis Austrian Look

    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.

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