Suicide and Assisted Suicide
The question of the moral permissibility of suicide for an egoistic philosophy is fascinating. It is challenging for Objectivism , which
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The question of the moral permissibility of suicide for an egoistic philosophy is fascinating. It is challenging for Objectivism , which
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Among the repercussions of last September's terrorist attacks is a heightened awareness among Objectivists of a phenomenon we, as lovers of
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Objectivism reads "I am my brother's keeper" as a short-hand for an ideal of self-sacrifice and service to the group. In other words, it...
I am sitting on the shore of Lake Ontario. It is late spring, and the sun rose about five minutes ago. The waters, which appeared blue
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The Objectivist morality, Ayn Rand said, is based on the choice to live. A perennial question in Objectivism is whether....
I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds ...
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