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Individual Rights: The Objectivist View

The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure the rights of man. Most Americans know and assent to the

May 5, 2009
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William Thomas
8 Mins
The Fourth Revolution

The capitalist system came of age in the century from 1750 to 1850 as a result of three revolutions. The first was a political revolution...

May 1, 2009
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins
Ayn Rand y La Filosofía Objetivista

Nov 4, 2007
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David Kelley Ph.D
Honoring Ayn Rand: The Entrepreneur's Philosopher

One of my favorite photographs of Ayn Rand dates back to 1961. In it, she is the only woman at the President's Advanced Round Table of the

Dec 20, 2004
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Theodore Kinni
2 Mins
Generosity and Self-Interest

People do generous things. They give directions to strangers, contribute to charities, volunteer in hospitals, send food and supplies to ear

Dec 1, 2004
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David Kelley Ph.D
5 Mins
Why Art Became Ugly

For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the "Isn't that disgusting" strategy. By that I mean the strategy of ...

Sep 1, 2004
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
10 Mins
The Problem of Animal Rights

A Gallup poll taken in May of 2003 found that only 3 percent of Americans believe animals do not need much legal protection. Fully 71 percen

Jun 22, 2004
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Shawn E. Klein
10 Mins
What Does Science Say About the Mind? - Review of The Problem of the Soul by Owen Flanagan

Owen Flanagan (pictured here) is a prominent philosopher of mind who exemplifies the trend in his profession of paying closer attention to..

Jun 22, 2004
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Robert Campbell
9 Mins
The Life-Centered Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson

In Atlas Shrugged, Dr. Robert Stadler finds it "outrageous" that a genius such as John Galt would have "performed a major revolution in...

Apr 1, 2003
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Robert James Bidinotto
4 Mins
The Justice of War

As the United States pursues its war in Afghanistan, the national and the international press have focused attention on the civilian

Dec 1, 2001
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Patrick Stephens
10 Mins
American Heroism

The terrorist attacks of September 11 showed us good and evil, heroism and villainy. There were people who stared death in the face and, set

Nov 1, 2001
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William Thomas
6 Mins
Blind Injustice: John Rawls and "A Theory of Justice"

John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, which was published thirty years ago, has been the most influential work of political philosophy in the

Jul 1, 2001
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Eric Mack
10 Mins
Objectivist Ethics in an Information-Age Economy

Some years ago, I wrote that we had reached a moment in history when self-esteem, which had always been a supremely important psychological

Feb 1, 2001
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Nathaniel Branden
10 Mins
Speakers Bureau Interview: John Bechtel

John Bechtel gave his first public talks for the Jehovah's Witnesses at the age of five. By age nine, he was addressing audiences numbering

Apr 1, 2000
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The Atlas Society
7 Mins
Hope

In Atlas Shrugged , when Dagny Taggart leaves her position at the railroad and "retires" to her cabin in the Berkshires, she thinks about

Jan 1, 1999
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David Kelley Ph.D
Postmodernism (Part 1)

Postmodernism became the leading intellectual movement in the late twentieth century. It has replaced modernism, the philosophy of the

Jun 29, 1998
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Stephen Hicks Ph.D.
2 Mins
Universals and Induction

Unlike other species, man has the ability to re-organize his perceptual world in such a way as to discover new relationships. The essence

Jun 1, 1998
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David Kelley Ph.D
Has Objectivism Been Refuted?

Battles for the hearts and minds of libertarians, which date from at least the 1971 birth of the Libertarian Party, are waged principally

Nov 1, 1997
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Bryan Register
9 Mins
David and Leviathan

libertarianism: a primer by David Boaz - an objectivist review"There are sundry 'libertarians'," Ayn Rand wrote during the early 1970s...

Apr 2, 1997
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Robert James Bidinotto
9 Mins
I Don't Have To

I have to take out the trash...change the oil in my car...pay my Visa bill...I have to give a presentation at the sales meeting...

Apr 1, 1996
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David Kelley Ph.D
6 mins

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