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Foundations Study Guide: Literary Theory

Aristotle originated the kind of literary theory that emphasizes the objective features of texts and the authorial intentions that those....

May 3, 2010
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Stephen Cox
8 Mins
Foundations Study Guide: Political Philosophy

Fred Miller is professor of philosophy and executive director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University.

May 3, 2010
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Fred Miller
10 Mins
Foundations Study Guide: Montessori Education

Maria Montessori, the first woman to graduate from the University of Rome Medical School, became a doctor in 1896. Her first post was in the

Apr 23, 2010
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Marsha Enright
9 Mins
Foundations Study Guide: Business Ethics

Dr. Stephen Hicks is chairman of the philosophy department at Rockford College, and executive director of the Center for Ethics and....

Apr 23, 2010
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
8 Mins
Foundations Study Guide: Philosophy of Mathematics

The philosophy of mathematics is the philosophical study of the concepts and methods of mathematics. It is concerned with the nature of....

Apr 21, 2010
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David Ross
8 Mins
Do Shareholders "Own" a Corporation?

Early in her novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand presents us with a scene aboard a train that is entering Philadelphia. “An office building...

Apr 14, 2010
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8 Mins
Objectivism and the Military

Objectivism has no position on most of the questions you ask, and in many cases the same general answer applies: We'll see when we get there

Apr 14, 2010
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William Thomas
3 Mins
What is the Objectivist view of the art of magic?

Magic and illusion are actions that aim to produce effects that appear to be paranormal or impossible by the laws of logic and nature that

Apr 14, 2010
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Malini Kochhar
2 Mins
How is Marxism different than Objectivism?

Marxism and Objectivism are similar in very few respects: —They are systems of thought. But Marxism is primarily a political and economic

Apr 14, 2010
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William Thomas
2 Mins
Rights and Self-Interest

Objectivism's social ethic (which underlies its theory of rights) is based on the recognition of a complex fact about rational beings: that

Apr 8, 2010
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William Thomas
3 Mins
What Does Objectivism Consider to be Art (Aesthetics)?

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments. Man's profound need of art lies in the fact

Mar 25, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
What is the Objectivist View of Law and Government (Politics)?

"Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately

Mar 25, 2010
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6 Mins
Government Funding vs. the Progress of Science

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.....

Mar 19, 2010
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Malini Kochhar
3 Mins
Destroying Embryos Is Not Immoral

April 3, 2001 -- Human life begins at conception. Biologically speaking, human life begins when a cell with 23 pairs of chromosomes capable

Mar 16, 2010
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Patrick Stephens
3 Mins
Art and Ideals

February 1, 2004 -- Some 30 to 40 thousand years ago, human beings began making images in caves like Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc in southern France

Mar 15, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
6 Mins
Animal Rights and the Circus

January 31, 2002 -- “Thirty million Americans a year go to circuses with animal acts,” a stony-faced Peter Jennings told his ABC News

Mar 15, 2010
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Scott McPherson
3 Mins
Why Does Anyone Need a Philosophy?

Mar 11, 2010
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William Thomas
5 Mins
Why is Objectivism a System of Ideas?

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognize

Mar 11, 2010
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William Thomas
3 Mins
Why Does Anything Exist?

When someone asks why is there Something rather than Nothing, they are asking for the cause of Existence in the widest possible sense—for

Mar 11, 2010
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Greg Perkins
2 Mins
Altruism

Question: Who coined the term/word "altruism?" Was it Kant and if so where is this information? Answer: According to the Oxford English

Jan 23, 2010
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2 Mins

We promote open Objectivism: the philosophy of reason, achievement, individualism, and freedom.