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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
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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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Reblogged:What Is a 'Populist,' Anyway?
By Gus Van Horn blog,
Populist. Everyone uses the term and, unfortunately, politicians fitting the description are seeing success the world over. The term gets sprinkled around news reports like croutons on a salad all the time. But I can't remember anyone giving a definition of "populism." From my view, it's one of those terms everyone seems to understand, but which raises questions as soon as one tries to pin it down: It cuts across left and right, so it doesn't seem to be an "ism" in the sense of being a specifi
Reblogged:Blog Roundup
By Gus Van Horn blog,
A Friday Hodgepodge 1. At New Ideal, Ben Bayer explains "Why Champions of Science and Reason Need Free Will." Taking the recent "emergence of thinkers who celebrate reason and critique forms of irrationality on both the cultural 'right' and the 'left'" as his point of departure, Bayer charges that for all their virtues, they are not revolutionary enough, and will fail unless they take the time to understand and embrace the concept of free will. He states in part:Aided by Ayn Rand's understandi
Reblogged:Cheap, Easy-to-Get Glasses?
By Gus Van Horn blog,
Over at the Atlantic, Yascha Mounk asks and observes: Why is it so difficult to get a new pair of glasses or contacts in [the United States]? It's easier pretty much everywhere else. The short answer is, unsurprisingly, the same as for why Americans used to be unable to buy hearing aids over the counter: regulation. Mounk goes through the gory details of that in his piece, but what really interested me, apart from his noting that it's easy and painless to buy glasses almost everywhere else, wa
Do I just need a little "push"?
By HowardRoarkSpaceDetective,
I’m here just as much to think out loud as I am to hear from you all, so bear with me.
I'm starting to get this sense that there is something fundamental to Objectivism that is, despite all the intellectual work I've done, frustratingly out of reach for me. It's somewhere in the vicinity of the Benevolent Universe Premise, I think. For starters, I would not say that I am or have ever been much of an optimist. I have my moments, but it doesn't take much to discourage me. Now, the thing I'm h
Reblogged:A Cargo-Cult Rand Reference
By Gus Van Horn blog,
Scrolling through Instapundit for the first time in quite a while this morning, I happened upon the following Glenn Reynolds post, which I quote in its entirety:Reynolds and other bloggers there occasionally mention Rand's works, including Return of the Primitive, and that often using the stock phrase we see above. In fact, the book clocks in at 68 hits according to Google. My memory serves me correctly that such references are used to pillory "the left," e.g., Ayn Rand's Return of the Primitiv
Atlas Read-Through
By HowardRoarkSpaceDetective,
I've created this thread as a way of keeping track of my thoughts on AS as I tackle it for the first time. Feedback from the community is more than welcome, as I anticipate needing help in untangling some passages and ideas.
I started reading AR about two years ago, starting with the FH. Since then I've read 6 or 7 of her other books, listened to hours of Piekoff and talk about her incessantly with friends. However, on account of coming at Objectivism from a libertarian position, I was conc
Reblogged:Moral Opposition to Cash Reparations
By Gus Van Horn blog,
Within a Hot Air blog post about a couple of cash reparations proposals in California comes the following good news, in the form of excerpts from a report on polling by the Los Angeles Times:I grant that neither moral objection is exactly individualistic, but I would bet that that would be because of bad polling questions -- with the top two answers simply being as close as there was to a "right" answer for many participants. Curious about what Ayn Rand might have said about the subject, I foun
Reblogged:GOP Response to Losses: Word Games?!
By Gus Van Horn blog,
NBC News reports that the party that spent the last presidential term swooning over Trump as supposedly some kind of natural Alinskyite has decided to borrow yet another page from the left's playbook: relabeling. Never mind that conservatives routinely make fun of the left for doing exactly this: They seem to think that they can go from making fun of, say, the "alphabet brigade" every time a new letter or symbol gets added to LGBT one moment -- to changing "pro-life" to some term-to-be-named-la
MAIN POINTS THE O’ISTS / ARI HAVE MISSED ABOUT AMERICA’S EROSION:
By Jacob Smith,
Given below are the main points of my argument with O’ists / ARI. Most of these points are hap-hazardly spread in my dialogue with an O’ist. I have brought them to order below. The argument happened because he read a series of my FB-Posts listed at the end of this article, one of them challenging the POTUS and All Americans. Everything was normal, he praised my Challenges – but all hell broke loose after he saw the words “modifying Christianity”, as if I was releasing Satan on America – blasphem
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