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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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    Reblogged:A Logical Fallacy Behind Tariffs

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Donald Boudreaux adroitly punctures a popular misconception -- unfortunately shared by Donald Trump -- about tariffs in his piece, "Protectionism and the Fallacy of Composition." The brilliance lies in how he introduces the logical fallacy to his readers, who may be even less familiar with it than they are with economics:This analogy instantly illuminates the logical fallacy, as well preemptively conceding the fact that tariffs do, in fact, comparatively benefit some participants in an economy.

    Trump Talking Up New US Imperialism - Any Visual-Show Greatness Will Do

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Tony posted this interesting poll of people in Greenland in a thread on tariffs, and I think it needs this new thread topic. Let's join the US For some years, I've urged the merger of the US and Mexico.* The 31 States of Mexico would become additional US States. There's some resistance to my idea. I think the results would go along lines of the results from the reunification of West and East Germany. (West revolutionized East for the better.) Even without a US-Mex unification, the proh

    Reblogged:Four Random Things

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. On my Someday/Maybe list, I have an article about best romantic weekend getaways and couples trips for each state. Louisiana would be an odd one for us since my wife's tastes stay on the low end of the Scoville scale -- but it does strike me as a material for a good family trip or two:I've known about Avery island for some time, so this is a nice reminder. That said, it's just far enough away that it's more of a full day's trip for us, or perhaps an interesting stop be

    Trump II

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    The Monkey's Paw Administration – Robert Tracinski

    Fred Miller

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Most recently, from Prof. Miller: Aristotle - On the Soul and Other Psychological Works Notre Dame Review ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peek into Fred Miller's paper at Ayn Rand Society Meeting 2005 here.  I expect this paper will be included in a planned volume on Aristotle and Rand in the series Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies.

    Reblogged:Kiddie Kanban

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    No! I don't track the kids' chores with a kanban board or anything like that. But I did just learn a bit more about the origins of kanban from a post (and comments) about a clever way an office manager gets help keeping inventory for a staff kitchen. In addition to learning that I was doing my own version of the same thing, the post gave me a good way to improve on it. In "Milk Kanban," Pawel Brodzinski describes the system:Spurred by a sarcastic comment, several readers left interesting com

    Reblogged:Not Making Cents Not Making Sense

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Jeff Jacoby takes a look at the economics of Trump's recent attempt to kill the penny:Jacoby discusses the low value of the penny relative to its metal content as being a result of the dollar being a fiat currency, and he is correct as far as that goes. While Jacoby unfortunately does not call for getting the government out of money, or even a return to a gold standard, he still shows that the move is likely more trouble than it's worth:Do note the above savings for no longer minting pennies: I

    Russian Political Philosophy – Recent

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Stephen Hicks on Alexander Dugin  

    Reblogged:RFK Shows JFK Doc Dump Futile

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Apparently, Donald Trump has ordered the release of 80,000 pages of unredacted documents related to the assassination of President Kennedy, a subject that has busied conspiracy nuts for decades. Spoiler Alert: No matter what those papers say, it won't make a damned bit of difference for a certain type of person, whose archetype is Trump's head of health and human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. I have no patience with the many predicatable excuses conspiracy nuts spew for ignoring and evading

    Two of possible interest

    Doug Morris
    By Doug Morris,
    Titles and blurbs of two articles of possible interest in the February Scientific American: "How to Recycle Space Junk" "Orbital debris will become a crisis if we don't act soon."   "Rocks, Crops, and Climate" "Spreading crushed stone across farm fields could inexpensively pull CO2 from the air while also increasing yields.  But it would require a mountain of mining."  

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