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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"
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    Restored Movie Version of "We the Living"

    Jbruneau
    By Jbruneau,
    https://www.ocregister.com/2023/10/19/restored-ayn-rand-film-furthers-her-legacy/

    Reblogged:Notable Commentary

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge "Thinking through this policy's logic and implications reveals that giving the government power to screen immigrants' ideologies means handing government the expansive power to police everyone's ideas." -- Agustina Vergara Cid, in "Trump's Proposal to Ideologically Screen Immigrants Would Be Unjustified and Immoral" (Orange County Register) "[The immigration] system doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be rethought entirely." -- Agustina Vergara Cid, in "The Immig

    Reblogged:RCV: Quench One Fire, Start Another?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    At RealClear Politics, Benjamin Reilly and Rachel Hutchinson note that ranked choice voting (RCV) could have averted the ongoing dumpster fire that is the GOP House Speaker contest. This is an interesting point that will surely be lost on the Trumpists in the GOP caucus who architected this problem long ago with a rule change as a condition of voting for former speaker Kevin McCarthy: One of its selling points -- at least for any voter disenchanted with each party's hard line -- is that it favo

    Reblogged:How Mike Rowe's Adventures Started

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Ever since I stumbled across Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch a couple of decades ago, I've been a fan of Mike Rowe, whose narration career runs strong even as he has branched out. Rowe now runs a foundation to promote education in skilled trades that don't typically require a college education, and he founded a whiskey distillery named after his grandfather, among other things. The last fact I learned from Salena Zito's piece on Rowe that appears in the Washington Examiner. It was interesting

    The Donations Boycott

    Reidy
    By Reidy,
    The recent moves by big donors away from donating to universities (e.g.) is interesting, for one reason, because it's just what Rand was advising decades ago. She said it as far back as the 60s. Here's an example from 1982.

    Q&A End of October

    TylerAshby
    By TylerAshby,
    Hi all! ARI is hosting a Q&A on metaphysics and epistemology at the end of October. We would love to hear from you! Please post a comment here if you would like your question answered.   We cannot guarantee a response to every question, but we will read and consider every submission. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday (10/25). You can also email us your questions at [email protected].

    Reblogged:Samenow on Solitary

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Answering a series of questions from a thoughtful student, criminologist Stanford Samenow considers the question of whether solitary confinement should exist within the prison system. I found his discussion enlightening both for its explanation of what such a measure should accomplish and for his acknowledgment of past abuses and popular stereotypes about it:Ultimately, it would seem that prisons need solitary for the same reason general society needs prisons, which Ayn Rand once well explained

    "The pursuit of truth is not important." What is the context and meaning of that Ayn Rand quote?

    The Laws of Biology
    By The Laws of Biology,
    This quote is from Ayn Rand's book The Romantic Manifesto. I assume the same quote appears in the 1969 issue of the "The Objectivist" newsletter. I don't have handy the book or the newsletter. On several websites I have found a little bit of the larger context of the quote from the book, which is as follows: “The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.” Wikiquote also give the f

    Reblogged:Why Return to the Office?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    If there has been a silver lining to the Covid-19 @#$%-storm, it has been the opportunity to test-run work-from-home presented by entire offices adopting stay-at-home measures, be it because employers saw actual merit to them or were wrongly forced to adopt them. To be fair, the audition for work-from-home was flawed, given that so many who had children were conscripted to provide child care at the same time. Nevertheless, the fact that so many balk at blindly returning to the way things were s

    Handling Children with Autism

    HowardRoarkSpaceDetective
    By HowardRoarkSpaceDetective,
    I'm looking for advice from anyone here who has insight into the intricacies of childhood development/learning disabilities. I recently started a new job in which I'm teaching basic reading skills to children of various ages (typically around 7-9 and usually diagnosed with dyslexia and/or ADHD), and it's presenting some challenges that I'm not prepared for. Basically, the program employs a proprietary methodology that emphasizes mental imaging in order to strengthen both phonetic and compre

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