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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:A Step Closer to Organ Sales?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A group called "Waitlist Zero" is making news for backing a proposal called the "End Kidney Deaths Act." Said proposal has bipartisan support and would encourage organ donations by offering a tax credit to donors during a ten year pilot program. (The tax credit is "refundable," meaning that even if someone did not owe taxes, he would get a government check for the amount.) Predictably, the proposal has attracted flak:Lets start with the last ridiculous objection, since it gets to the heart of t

    Reblogged:In-Car Manners Make for Safer Driving

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Miss Manners takes a question from someone who is beleaguered with unhelpful advice from passengers when behind the wheel. (This includes stupid comments about where to park, but somewhat surprisingly, nothing I could tell about how to park.)Image by John Matychuk, via Unsplash, license. This is the perfect reply, but for Judith Martin's modesty in not mentioning that it will make for safer driving because of the lower stress levels and distraction that it will bring about. (I say this as someon

    Universals and Measurement

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    This essay of mine was first published in V5N2 of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies – 2004. Universals and Measurement I. Orientation Rand spoke of universals as abstractions that are concepts (1966, 1, 13). Quine spoke in the same vein of "conceptual integration—the integrating of particulars into a universal" (1961, 70). Those uses of universal engage one standard meaning of the term. Another standard meaning is the potential collection to which a concept refers. This is the colle

    Reblogged:Sowell Shouts Into the Wind

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Thomas Sowell recently came out of retirement with a short, sweet editorial that would save the Republicans in the upcoming elections if they could be bothered to follow its advice:I would say that the bar is even lower than that, but it could still be too high for the Party of Trump. A recent editorial in the Washington Examiner demonstrates as much when it bemoans the following policy positions it attributes to Harris/Walz: Spending cuts for the police; Sympathy for/leniency towards rioters;

    Notes and Sources on Slavery and Abolition in the US

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Resource at the Library of Congress for Good Firsthand Recollections of Lives of Enslaved People

    Thoughts on the 3rd Anniversary of the Kabul Airport Attack and the 23rd Anniversary of the September 11th Attacks coming soon? What can be made of their legacy, and on the failures to stop them?

    Mthomas9s
    By Mthomas9s,
    Article Links:

    Reblogged:RFK Jr.: Food Czar?!?!

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Third-Party anti-vaccination, anti-"chemical" environmentalist kook, RFK, Jr., has "suspended" his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump, possibly in exchange for being made an advisor on chronic disease. If the reaction of Matt Gaetz, one of Trump's scummiest and mindless acolytes, is any indication, a Trump victory stands to make his prior appointment of Mehmut Oz to the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition look like a valiant stand for science by comparison: As big a quack as D

    Objectivist therapist in California

    AgentOfShield
    By AgentOfShield,
    Hi, i'm looking for an objectivist therapist in California, does anyone have any recommends?  

    Ayn Rand: Her Life, Her Philosophy

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    . Who Is Ayn Rand? Ayn Rand in Her Own Words

    Identifying subject and theme for video

    happiness
    By happiness,
    I’ve had an itch to make content pertinent to me. Perhaps no one will care, but I’m still going to do it. I want to start by making a video about my unique form of exercise. In my own opinion, I have a high level of knowledge on this subject that is quite superior to what 99% of successful fitness influencers preach, although it’s difficult to convince anyone of this. The exercise philosophy I subscribe to is like Objectivism in that it is a heterodoxical truth (there is a nexus of leading

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