To be objective means to be based on features of reality that can be observed or deduced by anyone. Scientific experiments are objective....
I think you are asking to what extent it is right to embrace and follow teachings that are in some aspect known to be false. Examples would
It is neither always wrong nor always right to hold off having sex until one is married. Whether it is right or wrong for you is a personal
Question: I would like to know how Objectivism is different from hedonism, at least as far as morality is concerned. They seem very similar
First, in a free society there really isn't as much of a class system as you may think. The correlation between a person's income and that
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You are right that Newton was not in a position to say in detail whether atoms or sub-atomic particles existed. We, like Newton, have plenty
Objectivism is an atheistic philosophy because there is neither a coherent concept of what God would be nor are any of the arguments offered
Ayn Rand argued that those who mete out death to others certainly deserve it back as a matter of justice (assuming that we are speaking of..
I am not a Kantian, nor an expert on Kantianism. But the common understanding of "a-priori" is knowledge that can be established prior to...
In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court declared a constitutionally protected right to abortion. Far from resolving the debate that gave rise to it..
Benevolence and tolerance are considered part of the Objectivist view of ethics, even though they are not explicitly stated among the.....
Consider what it would take to try to prove that there is no such thing as a supernatural realm. What evidence would you cite to prove that
People sometimes speak of a beautiful soul or similarly abstract beautiful qualities, but for the moment let us confine ourselves to beauty
Rights only apply to rational beings whose needs are best fulfilled by production and trade...
I hope you have read D. Moskovitz's answer on agnosticism. If not, you can find it here .You are right: we will never be omniscient. And
In 1978, the Supreme Court's Bakke decision banned overt racial discrimination in college admissions but left the door open to using racial
It may be far less common today than it once was to think of gluttony as an actual crime against heaven, but it is still the one among the
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The distinction between judging actions as evil and judging people as evil is fully discussed in David Kelley's seminal essay Truth and.....