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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

    Moore v. Harper

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Moore v. Harper seems to be the most important of decisions reached by the US Supreme Court in 2023. (ROBERTS, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, KAVANAUGH, BARRETT, and JACKSON, JJ., joined. KAVANAUGH, J., filed a concurring opinion. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which GORSUCH, J., joined, and in which ALITO, J., joined as to Part I.)

    cultural relativism

    klara
    By klara,
    hi..started writing this essay on cultural relativism but not sure whether everything looks good..will appreciate any feedback..many thanks Cultural relativism is the idea that different cultures have different moral codes. What one group might accept as morally correct might be abhorrent to another and vice versa To this end, author James Rachels explains that a “universal truth in ethics...is a myth” and this is because morals and ethics are entirely culturally based. In order to deem on

    Reblogged:What Frightens Today's Right?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Anyone who, like me, has been left politically homeless by the mindless lurch of the conservative movement to theocratic/nationalist populism, knows that just about the only things conservatives get excited about these days are banning abortion, Trump!, and banning immigration. But what do they dread? In the vein of understanding today's right, it might be useful to take a look. Capitalizing on last week's find of sites that today's barely-recognizable "right" regards as "better than Drudge."

    Reblogged:Man Gets Damages for Ridiculous Arrest

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Chalk up another win for the good guys at the Institute for Justice: They just won an award for damages for a man arrested in Louisiana for a satirical post he put up on Facebook at the height of our government's lunatic response to the recent pandemic. Here's how it started:That night, Bailey was subjected to a SWAT-style raid culminating in his being ordered to stand on his knees and put his hands on his "fucking head." He was arrested for a felony and faced up to 15 years in prison, although

    How to calculate Compound Function Formula for Food Chain start up?

    Umar
    By Umar,
    Hi Experts, Greetings,  We have a food chain start up, we are at planning stage, where a requirement came up that requires compound function to determine Price and Quantity curve    If you can kindly support on how to calculate compound function for food Production and what factors are to be considered for having required results?    Please Assist. Thank You. 

    Identifying subject and theme for video

    happiness
    By happiness,
    I’ve had an itch to make content pertinent to me. Perhaps no one will care, but I’m still going to do it. I want to start by making a video about my unique form of exercise. In my own opinion, I have a high level of knowledge on this subject that is quite superior to what 99% of successful fitness influencers preach, although it’s difficult to convince anyone of this. The exercise philosophy I subscribe to is like Objectivism in that it is a heterodoxical truth (there is a nexus of leading

    Reblogged:Some Landslide.

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Snatches of two bits of political commentary pretty well encapsulate my assessment of the "landslide" outcome in the GOP's Iowa caucuses the other day. First, Iowa hasn't exactly been predictive lately:Caucuses aren't polls of the general public, and whoever it is -- strong partisans, I presume -- who participate in the Iowa caucuses have been out of touch in the theocratic/social conservative direction lately. Trump is the man for that anti-freedom lot in this election. Second: 51%. That's

    Is Hypergamy Bad?

    Apollo Masters
    By Apollo Masters,
    I wrote a script about hypergamy and I would like to know your guys' thought about it. More specifically, I think that hypergamy is bad, and I want to know if you agree that hypergamy is bad, and if my solution is practical. To begin: Hypergamy is when women only date men who are superior to them. For example: A hypergamous woman who makes $250,000 a year, would only date a man who makes more than $250,000. If he makes $150,000, that's not good enough. Hypergamy is

    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-

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