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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:Malchow Flees Superstitious Taboo

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Over at Hot Air, Jazz Shaw discusses the decision by Democrat strategist Hal Malchow to go abroad in order to end his own life on his own terms, before he loses his mind to Alzheimer's Disease. Before this story broke, I was unaware that even in American states that have legalized physician-assisted suicide, the laws apply only to people with a fatal condition who will die in a few months. Malchow, after seeing his mother deteriorate with the disease, got himself tested for its genetic markers

    Reblogged:Rightist Autophagy

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Ed Driscoll, one of the bloggers at Instapundit, is fond enough of pointing out times when the left is at cross-purposes that he frequently starts off such posts with "Annals of Leftist Autophagy." There are now dozens of these, and it is conventional wisdom on the right that the left is a mess. The American right, having fallen under Donald Trump's sway, has -- from praising Trump as an Alinskyite and blaming "society" for bad behavior, all the way to embracing central planning -- increasingly

    Self-Defense in a Welfare State

    monart
    By monart,
    They are many, we are few -- so? They control us through the welfare state. So? We can refute and resist them. We know truly and can speak clearly of this: Self-Defense in a Welfare State You the welfare statist government say you are here to “help” and “serve” us with “welfare” by taxing, licensing, and regulating us. We the individualists are here to repudiate you the welfare statist government and your electors. . . . . . To reject and remove from you the power to violate our

    Motive Power

    monart
    By monart,
    Motivation is a key to human action, to its initiation, sustenance, and completion. Based on one’s values, motivation comes in many forms, such as financial, legal, ethical, promissory, logical, intellectual, and esthetic. At its core, motivation is emotive, i.e., e-motion: that which “-moves out”, that which is the motive power of action. An example of esthetic motivation is the following.   Motive Power The motive power of life is the engine of directed motion, the generator and cre

    Reblogged:Utah Age-Verification Law Under FIRE

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Lately, Republicans have been working overtime to show that the Democrats hold no monopoly on passing bad legislation in the name of helping "the children." For example, several "red" states, including Utah, have passed laws requiring age verification to open social media accounts. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has challenged Utah's law.The response to this challenge has been for Governor Spencer Cox (R) to delay implementation of the law until October ahead of repealing

    Reblogged:Four Random Things

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge 1. Some time back, the New York Times bought Wordle from its inventor. Having heard the new owners were going after clones of the popular word game jogged my memory of the existence of the game Don't Wordle. This non-clone has a different object: Make it through six rounds without guessing the word correctly. It's harder than you might think. 2. On her Substack blog, Claire Evans discusses art inspired over time by scintillating scotomas in her post "Brighter Than a Cl

    Reblogged:Slate Looks at Third-Party Voting

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Over at Slate is a decent, albeit left-slanted analysis of how "third-party candidates" might affect the 2024 election. It makes its most interesting point midway when it discusses the erosion in support such candidates suffer in the two-party system as Election Day rolls around. The piece then offers an interesting possible exception to that historic pattern, though:I agree that a third-party candidate could overcome that pattern, but doubt it would be Kennedy, an all-purpose kook whose anti-v

    Topics on This Forum Might Get Deleted or Hidden Without Notice

    KyaryPamyu
    By KyaryPamyu,
    A heads-up to the members of this forum: make backups of any writings you have posted here and want to preserve. My thread "How To Be Happy", a comparative study of Rand and Schopenhauer's view of suffering and happiness, got deleted/hidden today without prior notice. For an 'official' Objectivist perspective on Schopenhauer (albeit not the most accurate one), you can refer to Leonard Peikoff's lecture on him.

    Reblogged:Nativism Trumps Abortion?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Writing at The Hill, Juan Williams contends that voters hoping to legalize abortion are a force to be reckoned with in the upcoming election:Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump, who helped cause Roe vs. Wade to be overturned with his Supreme Court appointments, is hoping nativism and xenophobia will come to his rescue:This, Williams suggests, is due to the economy not being a clear win for him in this election. I don't think Williams is completely right. Although Trump certainly doesn't deserve more t

    The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts (1992) by Harry Binswanger ~Part 1~ In this work, Harry Binswanger rejects the idea that the ends-attaining actions of living things are the result of a kind of sui generis cause appearing in nature in living things and not derivative from the causes in play in inanimate nature. That is, he sets aside the vitalist view of living action; there is no vital force inexplicable in terms of complexes of inanimate forces.  Actions in which th

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