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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:Sounds Like She Needed Decision Cards...

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Someone asked advice columnist Carolyn Hax if a recent decision to turn down the offer of a "high voltage" job was a sign of depression. Hax's reply wasn't bad, and amounted to this was a difficult, multifactorial decision and coming to such a conclusion about one's mental health requires weighing many things, including why you made that decision about the job offer. Hax will sometimes also promote intelligent comments from people who follow her column, and one of those seemed particularly ast

    Seeking Philosophical Insights

    Masha Ava
    By Masha Ava,
    Hey guys, I'm a history scholar who also has a keen interest in philosophy, but I always seem to run into a certain group of people who argue that knowledge is dependent on a metaphysical being, like Yahweh/Christian God. This kind of thinking falls under presuppositional apologetics. It just confuses me a bit because I'm not convinced that knowledge relies solely on the existence of a metaphysical entity. I'm wondering if there are any philosophers out there who can provide some insights into t

    Self-sacrificed for altruism for 40 years. Is it too late for me?

    Jeremy
    By Jeremy,
    I'm nearly 50. I have recently discovered Ayn Rand and Objectivism and I feel like I've finally found a home. But I'm afraid it's too late... As a child and into my early teen years, I had many dreams and goals of becoming a world-class engineer. I was very good at math and science. Top of my class.  But then in my teenage years, religion sunk its teeth into me, and I have spent the last 40 years sacrificing everything about myself. I gave up engineering, math, and science, and went to

    Reblogged:NCAA: From Near-Slavery to Quasi-Fascism

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    According to the Wall Street Journal, the NCAA is considering the "radical" idea of permitting colleges to pay actual money to the grown men and women who play spectator sports under their brands. Do note that the term radical is not my sarcastic description, but the newspaper's, and is used unironically in its headline. Here's what they're calling "radical":This neither challenges the altruistic premise that amateurism is morally superior to professionalism in athletics, nor grants profession

    My art

    Ifat Glassman
    By Ifat Glassman,
    I would love to hear your thoughts about my art. ifatart.com The paintings, sketches and drawings in my site are works that I've done over the last 6 years or so. My older paintings are more in the style of Fantasy art, or what I call Symbolic art, and my later paintings describe real life situations. A few of my works are directly related to Ayn Rand's novels. The quality of the technique also varies according to age of the painting (the later ones are better). Here is one of my bes

    In the Gathers of the World

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Collection of my best poems, the twenty-six in the Replies below, in an order right for a book. Suns / Steads / Lifehold / Placement / Shadow-Wing / Is Love / Island / Would Be / Each Reach / His Day / Still One / Secret Wreath / We of Love / Stream / The Castle / Brushes / Dream to Sleep / More / Matters / Carriage / After all / So / Landers / That It Had Been / The Song / Yes /

    Reblogged:Dem Voters Have New Hampshire Dilemma

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Over at Jewish World Review, Carl Leubsdorf handicaps the early Republican primaries, and concludes that Nikki Haley is in a strong position to emerge as the main alternative to Donald Trump after Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. I mostly agree with his analysis, but I think New Hampshire might be more interesting for Democrat voters and political junkies than Leubsdorf realizes. His take on New Hampshire:Important here is why the Democrats won't recognize that winner, and the name of t

    Reblogged:Trump II? Sounds Chi-Comm, Doesn't It?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    I have never been a fan of Donald Trump. I voted none of the above in '16 via blank, and only very reluctantly held my nose and cast a ballot for him in '20 -- and only then because I was worried that the Green New Deal had a serious chance of passing. The fact that an authoritarian-styled person like Trump can ride a personality cult to power in the United States is an alarming development to say the least. And it is hard to say what he has done -- spending worse than a Democrat while in offic

    Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies

    whYNOT
    By whYNOT,
    ***Split from Correspondence and Coherence*** Most upbeat. What's to stop bitcoin crashing in a year or two? There's no inherent or objective value/standard that I can see, and the huge fluctuations seen in its value point to its obvious attraction for speculators, well above the individual freedom and practicality the writer justifies. Does one want to own a speculative cryptocurrency which can soar or crash, the value varying by market demand day by day? Could make one nervous.

    Schelling’s “ich=ich”

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Schelling’s “ich=ich”   These remarks complement the earlier look at Kohnstamm’s book titled I am I.* Recall that the identity expression there intends the first I to be self considered as patient, actor, and controller, and the second I to be self as in contrast to any other self.   Writing in 1800, Friedrich Schelling took a proposition I am I, or self is self, for foundation of a systematic philosophy he had begun to craft. That philosophy was named the Identity Philosophy, and the book o

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