Family Relations and Objectivism
Objectivism holds that the fundamental standard for all relationships is the trader principle. This principle holds that we should interact
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Objectivism holds that the fundamental standard for all relationships is the trader principle. This principle holds that we should interact
Transhumanism (e.g. H+ ) or Extropianism is an ideological coalition centered on the idea that, in the near future, substantial....
Libertarianism is the political position that all human relationships should be voluntary, i.e. not subject to the initiation of force by...
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...
Objectivism holds that man has free will. In every moment, many courses of action are open to us; whichever action we take, we could equally
For as long as there has been an Objectivist movement, its ranks have periodically been thinned by schisms and excommunications, power...
The following is Chapter 5 from the book The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism, by David Kelley.
Twenty years ago, on February 24, 1990, George Walsh and David Kelley stood before a crowded lecture hall in New York City to announce the
As readers of this Journal know, over the past few months the Institute has been fighting socialized medicine, sponsoring a lecture series..
Daniel Dennett (pictured at left) is a philosopher known for advocating a reductionistic view of consciousness, and for promoting the theory
In The Structure of Liberty, Randy Barnett takes on a complex and ambitious project. His main goal is to provide a systematic argument
A person of "principle" is commonly thought to be one who cleaves to his moral ideals and shuns "expediency" and compromise. Objectivism....
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds ...
Reason is the faculty which… identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses. Reason integrates man's perceptions by means
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive
Most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order..
Nationalism is the doctrine that a unitary cultural and political entity, the nation, should be the organizing principle of society....
In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in
The Atlas Society (formerly known as The Objectivist Center) works with students to spread the revolutionary ideas of......