Existence, Time, and the Big Bang
There are four points that need to be made in response to your question.First, "non-existence" is not the name of something. "Existence"....
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There are four points that need to be made in response to your question.First, "non-existence" is not the name of something. "Existence"....
Ayn Rand wrote out the passages that Leonard Peikoff cites in The Fountainhead , Centennial Edition (728–732) in her journals from late...
Objectivists absolutely hold that we have a right to freedom of speech. It is an aspect of our broader right to liberty: the right to take..
Objectivism holds that each person's life is its own moral sanction, and that no one thrives in life except by living as a rational being...
Rights only apply to rational beings whose needs are best fulfilled by production and trade...
People sometimes speak of a beautiful soul or similarly abstract beautiful qualities, but for the moment let us confine ourselves to beauty
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...
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..
Objectivism is an atheistic philosophy because there is neither a coherent concept of what God would be nor are any of the arguments offered
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
The distinction between judging actions as evil and judging people as evil is fully discussed in David Kelley's seminal essay Truth and.....
At the 2006 Summer Seminar of The Atlas Society, we were treated to a number of excellent presentations that addressed different aspects...
In Viable Values, Tara Smith sets forth an exposition of Ayn Rand's metaethical theory and defends it against competing views regarding the
Objectivism holds that the basis of all law should be individual rights to life, liberty, and property. These rights are commonly called...
The definition you quote for productive achievement accurately states the Objectivist view (though Ayn Rand's wording is slightly different
Ayn Rand rejects altruism, the view that self-sacrifice is the moral ideal. She argues that the ultimate moral value, for each human individ
Ayn Rand rejects altruism, the view that self-sacrifice is the moral ideal. She argues that the ultimate moral value, for each human individ
Objectivists mean by "spiritual values" those values that fulfill the needs of human consciousness. The word "spirit" indeed refers
It is my view that scholarly writing has several distinctive characteristics: It shows careful reading of primary sources and a thorough
Perception gives one an integrated awareness of an entity, distinct from the background of everything else in the universe, in some form...