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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:Stossel Looks at Government-Run Gambling

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    In a fully free society, government would be drastically reduced in scope to its proper function, the protection of individual rights, and would be financed voluntarily. We are obviously a far, far cry from either goal, to the point that Ayn Rand, who advocated laissez-faire did not devote much time to the topic since it would be a final detail for hashing out at the tail end of the massive political changes that only a philosophical revolution within our culture could make possible. But she d

    Second Renaissance Books, "History of Western Music" lecture course

    Arturo
    By Arturo,
    Hello to all, Back in the late 1980s I bought a lecture course on tape cassettes from Second Renaissance Books which I believe was titled "History of Western Music". It was truly an excellent lecture course from an Objectivist point of view. I have since lost it. Does anyone know if it is available anywhere online or anywhere at all? I would love to have and listen to it again.

    Do we need language to think?

    Doug Morris
    By Doug Morris,
    Until recently I had assumed that thinking depends on language.  If I understand correctly, Ayn Rand took this view, as did many others. A neuroscientist at MIT named Evelina Fedorenko has spent 15 years researching this, using modern brain-imaging techniques.  Her conclusion: language and thought are, in fact, distinct entities that the brain processes separately, and the highest levels of cognition can proceed without an assist from words or linguistic structures. She co-authored a r

    Reblogged:Blog Roundup

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. At New Ideal, Ben Bayer exposes the religious thinking behind a bitter controversy among atheists:Among the things I learned from the piece was an interesting bit of trivia: the origin of the current humility fad. 2. At How to Be Profitable and Moral, Jaana Woiceshyn makes "The Moral Case Against Tariffs -- and for Free Trade," in part because:As neglected as it is, this question is important because supporters of various political measures frequently do so on the basi

    AR's Country House

    Reidy
    By Reidy,
    Somebody has done a 3-D rendering of the house Wright designed for Rand. It's only a couple of still pictures, not a full walkthrough such as digital reconstructors have done with many of Wright's demolished or never-built designs. Such a treatment for the Rand design may be impossible, since the project never got to the detail stage. In the meantime, the most beautiful of the full realizations is a tour of the Imperial Hotel, which stood for almost 50 years in Tokyo.

    Reblogged:Somin on the Abrego Garcia Case

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    "Due process is what keeps good people out of jail, even though it occasionally spares people -- such as yourself, -- who deserve to be confused for an immigrant or a criminal and sent straight to an El Salvadoran prison by an incompetent, authoritarian regime." -- Me, to Stephen Miller *** Ilya Somin of the Cato Institute summarizes the status of the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant illegally deported to imprisonment in El Salvador, and why you should be concerned about it. A

    Do you agree with Yaron Brook on open borders for the US?

    RobertP
    By RobertP,
    My understanding is Brook supports open borders in the US that he would never support for Israel.  I believe that having control over who enters a country is crucial for what I consider obvious reasons. Do you agree with Brook? Why or why not? Or is my understanding of his position off the mark? 

    Reblogged:A Trump II Silver Lining

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    At The Edgy Optimist, Zachary Karabell presents a "potted history" of the growth of executive power over history, and argues that this excessive power may have already peaked early in this second Trump Presidency. Karabell sees Trump as having squandered this power -- which his predecessors used more sparingly -- to the point that Americans will be ready to cut it back down to size. I agree that the President is squandering his power in terms of helping his country, but not necessarily in ter

    Reblogged:Trump Is Causing a Certainty Crisis.

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Trump's tariffs can't achieve any one of his stated policy goals, but they can paralyze the economy. *** If we set aside the contradictory stated policy objectives President Trump gives for starting his trade war, we quickly find that -- in addition to being unable to defy the Law of Non-Contradiction -- tariffs also can't achieve any one of the goals. We'll look at manufacturing, since I keep running into pertinent facts on that matter. First, we'll set aside a biggie: The U.S. produces nea

    Ayn Rand's Steady-State Universe

    Cave_Dweller
    By Cave_Dweller,
    Rand's Objectivism begins with the axiom "existence exists," with reality as an objective absolute. She applies this axiom to the whole universe, stating, "The universe, as a whole, cannot have a cause, because a cause implies a prior state, and there can be no state prior to existence itself" (Philosophy: Who Needs It). Regarding the universe as subject to her axioms, especially the law of identity ("A is A") and the principle of causality, Rand implicitly considers the universe a "thing" with

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