Gay Marriage
There is no established Objectivist position on gay marriage per se. However, I think Objectivism can be seen to apply to the issues at hand
Jan 25, 2011
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There is no established Objectivist position on gay marriage per se. However, I think Objectivism can be seen to apply to the issues at hand
We are integrated beings of mind and body. Simply put, this means that one's mental functions are the product of an organ (which turns out
Ayn Rand held that charity is not a major virtue. Objectivism holds that how you spend your money is your business. Your ultimate moral aim
Existentialism is not a very unified school of thought. The main existentialists—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre—disagree
That we have free will is self-evident. You chose to write this question. Indeed, most fundamentally, you chose to think about it. This is
The free market can provide as much security as a statist system. And statism is more to blame for economic instability than most people
Deism is the belief that an omnipotent, eternal, and all-knowing God created reality and set its rules, but that the Deity does not interven
You can find a discussion of one form of "escapism" (fantasy fiction) in my article " The Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy ." Or consider
Happiness is a complex emotion that proceeds from living one’s life with success and intensity. To achieve it, one must correctly identify
Objectivism views emotions as the result and reflection of an individual's value judgments. Our emotional reactions to events, people and o
There is no “official” definition of fundamentalism as it relates to secular groups. The term itself is a little difficult to define. Take..
Objectivism holds that there is no "supernatural" world. For more on this, see our Q&A on Religion and our Q&A on metaphysics...
Objectivism holds that productive work is, as Ayn Rand put it, man’s “noblest activity.” Whether one is a janitor or a philosopher, he
In a general sense, Objectivists hold that children should be legally protected from abuse and from extremes of parental neglect. There is..
The Atlas Society does not at this time have an official position on the Free State Project. However, I think it is safe to say that the
As they evolved over hundreds of millennia, human beings developed some innate physical desires and psychological predispositions through
The person who said that simply misunderstood Objectivism .In social relations, Objectivism holds that your rational self-interest is best
Ayn Rand was a radical thinker, i.e., one who went to the root of long-standing philosophical problems. She was self-consciously opposed to
Objectivism does not have a “strict physicalist doctrine.” It merely holds that whatever exists exists, has identity, and has causal powers
To be objective means to be based on features of reality that can be observed or deduced by anyone. Scientific experiments are objective....