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Jump to content Home Objectivism Online Forum Existing user? Sign In Sign In Remember me Not recommended on shared computers Sign in anonymously Sign In Forgot your password? Or sign in with one of these services Sign in with Facebook Sign in with Twitter Sign Up Search In Everywhere More options... Find results that contain... Any of my search term words All of my search term words Find results in... Content titles and body Content titles only Portal Forums All Activity Guidelines Staff Leaderboard Chat More More All Activity Home Portal ° Objectivism Is The Everyman's Philosophy In the universe, what you see is what you get, figuring it out for yourself is the way to happiness, and each person's independence is respected by all Rand's Philosophy in Her Own Words "Metaphysics: Objective Reality " "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed/Wishing won’t make it so." "The universe exists independent of consciousness" " Epistemology: Reason" "You can’t eat your cake and have it, too." "Thinking is man’s only basic virtue" " Ethics: Self-interest" "Man is an end in himself." "Man must act for his own rational self-interest" "The purpose of morality is to teach you[...] to enjoy yourself and live" " Politics: Capitalism" "Give me liberty or give me death." "If life on earth is [a man's] purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being" Objectivism Online Chat Rand and the Greeks By Boydstun, January 18 I wrote this and originally posted it online in 2010. Rand and the Greeks In the “The Objectivist Ethics” Rand stated: “Aristotle did not regard ethics as an exact science” (14). “He based his ethical system on observations of what the noble and wise men of his time chose to do, leaving unanswered the questions of: why they chose to do it and why he evaluated them as noble and wise” (OE 14). Insofar as Aristotle’s approach was indeed as described in the preceding quotation (see e.g. NE 14 replies 919 views Add Reply Reblogged:Friday Hodgepodge By Gus Van Horn blog, 8 hours ago Four Things 1. An assortment of errands and appointments have allowed me to catch up on a few episodes of Don Watkins's interesting and enjoyable Liberty Unlocked podcast. Watkins is on a mission to understand how best to aid the cause of liberty by exploring how and why individual human beings decided to take up the fight for freedom. It is hard to do justice to what he accomplishes with this approach in a short recommendation, but I'll try, anyway. You get to meet real people, one at a tim 0 replies 6 views Add Reply How would an Objectivist Based Government have Dealt with Covid-19 By Easy Truth, April 4 The dust has not settled so options seem muddied at this point. The 6 Trillion dollar government plan and spending is being implemented. Most likely more will be spent. But the arguments for and against the intervention usually turn out to be utilitarian, based on body count, or money lost. The question of affordability is up in the air. Rarely is the issue of "respect for individual rights" come up. Even amongst Objectivists, for instance Onkar Gate and Salmieri seemed to disagr 110 replies 2749 views Add Reply Tim Pool and the Media By StrictlyLogical, Monday at 03:06 PM So who is doing most of the lying? The mainstream media or this guy? Tim Pool has a few channels on YouTube. He is a moderately left leaning "classical liberalist". But for me he has distinguished himself as a rational commonsense critical thinker who questions the mainstream narrative, and the loud far left Marxist intersectional religious types. The big meta-message from all of his channels points to a panic induced corruption of mainstream media, social media, and the democrat 9 replies 133 views Add Reply Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Page 1 of 5612 Portal by DevFuse · Based on IP.Board Portal by IPS Objectivism Explained ARI on Ayn Rand's Ideas ARI on Ayn Rand's Philosophy The Objective Standard Ayn Rand Lexicon Ayn Rand's Life Timeline Biography Legacy Library There's more... Lots of free courses from ARI The online Ayn Rand Lexicon Ayn Rand Book List Buy Ayn Rand on Amazon.com ARI Online Audio Download Store Free Objectivist Books for Students The Undercurrent, student Objectivist publication The Objective Standard, periodical Leonard Peikoff Podcasts Philosopher Harry Binswanger's private forum Offbeat info, resources, history etc. about Objectivism Economist George Reisman's Blog Archived Objectivist Forums Rebirth of Reason Forum FORUM For Ayn Rand Fans Objectivist Answers SOLO Passion Forum Objectivist Living Facebook Objectivist Groups Ayn Rand Open Group on Objectivism The John Galt Line All Activity Home Portal Contact Us Powered by Invision Community × Existing user? Sign In Sign Up Portal Forums All Activity Guidelines Staff Leaderboard Chat × Create New......