Immortality and Value
Objectivists would try to employ any technology that reliably allowed them to live longer, fuller lives. It is wonderful and life-affirming
Jan 26, 2011
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Objectivists would try to employ any technology that reliably allowed them to live longer, fuller lives. It is wonderful and life-affirming
Humanism is the doctrine that there is only the real world, that reason is our means of knowledge, and that human well-being in this life is
In a society that is basically Objectivist in its beliefs and laws, the only actions that would be illegal would be those that impose harm o
Induction is the process of reaching general conclusions from particular facts. It is contrasted in logic with deduction, which is the proce
Under laissez-faire capitalism, I doubt that there would be any blanket legal duty to reveal information that would harm one’s business....
Objectivists are advocates of reason, so we first try to reason with people who believe in ideas supported only by faith...
Peter Schartz was not simply referring to the Libertarian party. See his " On Moral Sanctions ," in which he discusses the question "...
Workers' pay in the laissez-faire era of the19th century rose steadily with the innovations that increased productivity and lowered prices..
Question: How does Objectivism define and classify sexual desire and lust? It seems they do not actually flow from convictions, but instead
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...
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..
Ayn Rand wrote out the passages that Leonard Peikoff cites in The Fountainhead , Centennial Edition (728–732) in her journals from late...
There are four points that need to be made in response to your question.First, "non-existence" is not the name of something. "Existence"....
Objectivism is an individualist philosophy. It holds that each person is a rational animal and that all individuals....
Objectivism holds that there is nothing wrong with charity, so long as one is pursuing one's own values in providing it. As Ayn Rand said...
Externalities,” in economic terms, are costs or benefits imposed on third parties during the normal course of economic activity. So, if a...
In the Objectivist view, the rights of human beings arise from their rational faculty and their ability to live as independent producers....
As such, Nash's contributions to non-cooperative game theory were a major breakthrough in the formal analysis of strategic interaction...
Is it against Objectivist principles to date non-Objectivists? Absolutely not...
Well, if you’re referring to an objective, rational view of the universe as it really is (the perspective Objectivism adopts), God simply...