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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

    2024 – from Princeton University Press

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution by Anne O'Donnell.   The Individualists by Matt Zwolinsky and John Tomasi

    Reblogged:Yet Another Wasted Election?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Donald Trump managed to eke out a win over Nikki Haley yesterday in New Hampshire. Haley is not dropping out of the GOP primary yet, but her battle is more uphill than I was hoping to learn from yesterday's vote. The outcome likely means that too many Republicans are part of Donald Trump's personality cult for that party to nominate a serious candidate for President and that not enough independents appreciated the need to have a better choice than Trump or Biden in November. That is awful. T

    Rationality - A Good Choice - For Life

    monart
    By monart,
    Rationality – A Good Choice - For Life [A Simple Re-Minder]   To be rational is to choose to be good in order to live as a human being. Rationality is good for happiness. A basic fact of life is that its existence is conditional. Life needs values for sustenance. Human life needs rational values and the work to produce them. Success is neither automatic nor guaranteed; it depends on will and skill. Rationality is a choice and requires effort. If the choice is to live, th

    Reblogged:Kotkin's California Update

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    I often wince from afar at the anti-freedom political and legal climate in California, but even I was shocked to read the litany of its sins against freedom penned by Joel Kotkin and published recently by Sp!ked. The whole thing is worth a read, as an update and as a warning for what the far left has in mind if it achieves dominance elsewhere. Three things stood out to me: (1) the number of ways the "climate crisis" has been used to excuse improper government, (2) how intrusive, on the level o

    Deep Reading, Iterative Reading

    Marzshox
    By Marzshox,
    Deep reading and Iterative reading are two related facets of the much broader, Literary studies landscape. Thus, I give you a two part post. It's rather difficult to tee off a discussion without a solid swing, without the proper club. So I guess I'll start with Deep Reading. For anyone who doesn't know what deep reading is, one would say such a lack of knowledge is akin to a President who doesn't know what foreign policy is. As deep reading is as fundamental to literature as water is t

    2024 US Election

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    2024 US Senate Elections  

    Reblogged: IRS: You Are Your Relative's Guarantor

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    At RealClear Markets is a shocking story about the IRS coming after someone over a debt incurred by a relative:It is bad enough that the IRS exists at all, but so long as it does, it should at least confine its looting to the money of whatever individual taxpayer violates a given matter of tax law. This is a new low. Curious about the case, I briefly searched the news for the victim, and learned that, on top of the sin of possessing more money than another person, she will probably be relative

    Conflation of Value and Identity

    Easy Truth
    By Easy Truth,
    For years, I have heard the same people attacking objective reality. First I thought they were arguing in bad faith. That they were lying. But last week in a discussion a problem became visible. What was brought up was that the table in front of us was a table, but the value of the table was in the eyes of the valuer. And as far as they were concerned, the value of the table is part of its identity. If so, part of its identity is based on the observer, as in subjective. Without the subje

    Reblogged:FEE's Ex Nihilo Attack on Ayn Rand

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Over at FEE is a piece by Lawrence Reed whose headline reads, "Indians, Property Rights, and Ayn Rand," and whose blurb elaborates: Ayn Rand got many things right, but on the issue of Native Americans she made a big error. Interesting I thought. I don't recall Rand specifically positing or critiquing a general Amerindian stand on that issue. As a labor of love (which my respect for intellectual property rights will otherwise keep obscure and thus financially unrewarding), I have been graduall

    Reblogged:Four Random Things

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. At Ask a Manager is a post titled "Scolding Strangers, Kids Using Corporate Lingo, and Other Ways Our Jobs Follow Us Home," which you may find amusing. Within, Alison Green shares reader contributions, such as:I originally read this with some mild puzzlement and memories of irritation with others for doing things like this in the past. You're not at work, I recall once saying to a friend using work lingo on an unsuspecting layman. Intending to ... circle back ... to

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