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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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Determinism as presented by Dr. Robert Sapolsky
By Solvreven,
Hi, I'm curious about you're arguments against Robert Sapolsky's "idea of Determinism".
I think he has made the strongest case there ever has been for determinism, I myself do not agree with him, as I think he starts at the wrong level.
For those not familiar with his works, here's an introduction:
Reblogged:What We're About to Re-Learn the Hard Way
By Gus Van Horn blog,
Both of the nonentities running for the Presidency are fans of tariffs, one much more so than the other. Unfortunately, the one who seems more likely to win imagines that trade wars are the path to prosperity, the Great Depression to the contrary. Economist Don Boudreaux has been debating the matter with a Trump-aligned commentator, with one of his salvoes being titled, "Tariffs Don't Save Industries." The whole thing is worth a read, but most notably for the following warning and factual corre
How do objectivists respond to Immanuel Kant’s argument time and space are intuitions
By HappyDays,
I’m curious how objectivists would respond to Kant’s criticism of certainty of perception because it could be that time and space are intuitions of perception
Brother's Keeper?
By Boydstun,
With citations, please: What did Rand think of the idea that one is one's brother's keeper?
The phrase "brother's keeper" is used in Genesis, and apparently the idea (perhaps with variation of exact meaning), if not the phrase, comes up and is endorsed elsewhere in the Jewish and Christian texts.
Reblogged:Admit Knowledge Limits to Build Credibility
By Gus Van Horn blog,
A recent Faye Flam column about the scientific/medical commentary of Michael Osterholm raised a great point that usually went missing during the pandemic:In today's ridiculous political climate, I find it necessary to mention that Osterholm, whom I hadn't heard of until this morning, opposed lockdowns and masking mandates, and yet himself wore an N95 mask in public longer than the mandates based on his own personal risk assessment. In other words, he didn't just talk the talk, he walked the wal
Objectivism and Leibniz’s contingency argument
By HappyDays,
Objectivists of this community, what is objectivism’s response to the argument for the existence of god presented by Leibniz in the argument from contingency
Ayn Rand on obesity?
Morality of knowingly receiving stolen goods
By Jane Roe,
American, British, and German businessmen industrialized Soviet Russia during Stalin's reign in the 30s (the bloodiest period) building a thousand factories, hydroelectric power plants, metallurgical facilities, vehicle manufacturing factories.
Koch of Koch Industries' fame, whose family now funds The Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, built 15 refineries (due to a patent infringement case he couldn't work in the US at the time). Albert Kahn's firm was involved in construction of m
What are you listening at the moment?
By Uriah,
Admins - please give it a try.
This topic is for the members to share the music they are listening to, it supposed to be updated constantly.
And this is what's keeping me awake:
Air - Love 2
The French duel is now out with a new album. It is rare to hear this kind of statement from a professional musician but Dunckel and Godin thought that their last album Pocket Symphony wasn't satisfying, partly because of their recent project with Charlotte Gainsbourg 5.55 which took a lot
Morality of Linux
By Phlegmak,
Forgive me if this has been discussed before.
So what's the Objectivist stance on Linux? Linux, which I'm using at this moment, is a freely available operating system. You can download the CD images, burn them to CDs, and install the OS, all for $0. So far, I've used Linux on my computer for a little over a year, and I've paid $0 for it.
Note that this isn't a technical discussion.