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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers: Why Each Person Can Have Only One Ultimate Value
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers. Please follow the links to Objectivism for Intellectuals for new content. Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Why Each Person Can Have Only One Ultimate Value. A value chain cannot go on infinitely. A person must have some ultimate value that serves to justify and motivate the others. A set of value chains that converge on a single ultimate value may be termed a "value tree." The ultimate value is an end-in-itself that is never pursued purely as a means to something else. More realisti...
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers: QuickPoint 1: Thinking is Individual
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers. Please follow the links to Objectivism for Intellectuals for new content. Sunday, October 7, 2012. QuickPoint 1: Thinking is Individual. There are some people who say that ideas are products of a culture as a whole- that no one stands apart from the collective. But where do ideas come from originally? Process. Learning from others does not mean parroting word sounds, but thinking about the material you are given. Before an idea can be taught, it must be. The purpose of this...
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers: Taking Philosophy Seriously...
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers. Please follow the links to Objectivism for Intellectuals for new content. Thursday, July 5, 2012. Means Not Committing The Fallacy of Self-Exclusion. If philosophy is to be more than a useless mental exercise, or a "bauble of the intellect" as Leonard Peikoff puts it in OPAR, ( 1. But this fallacy occurs in many more subtle forms:. There are no absolutes." That is an absolute statement asserting a negative. You will have to come up with a theory that allows for certainty so...
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers: Books / Links
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers. Please follow the links to Objectivism for Intellectuals for new content. Resources for learning about Objectivism:. Metaphysics and Overview of Philosophy:. Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, Exp. 2nd Ed. The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Perception. Ethics and Human Nature, Overview:. The Virtue of Selfishness. Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It. Normative Ethics, Detailed:.
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers: On Fairness and Justice: Their Meanings, Scopes, and How They Are Not the Same
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers. Please follow the links to Objectivism for Intellectuals for new content. Wednesday, July 18, 2012. On Fairness and Justice: Their Meanings, Scopes, and How They Are Not the Same. A Theory of Justice. How many times have you heard people say “Life isn’t fair,” with a resigned shrug, as though this “obvious fact” means there is something inherently wrong ("imperfect") in the nature of things? Life, in general, is neither fair, nor unfair, because the concept does not apply.
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers: Esthetics
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers. Please follow the links to Objectivism for Intellectuals for new content. The science that studies the nature and forms of art. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). NOTE: This blog is now obsolete and no longer being updated. Please see Objectivism for Intellectuals. All content on this blog can be found there. All comments should be made there. Please see the About page for more. You can now follow this blog's twin on Facebook:. A priori vs. a posteriori. Ayn Rand Institute eStore.
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers: Politics
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers. Please follow the links to Objectivism for Intellectuals for new content. The science devoted to the discovery of the proper governmental/social system for man; the application of ethics to societal governance. How to Show That Taxation is Robbery. Why "Anarcho-Capitalism" is Wrongheaded. Man's Rights," an essay by Ayn Rand. The Virtue of Selfishness. Ayn Rand's Theory of Rights" by Craig Biddle on YouTube. The Nature of Government," an essay by Ayn Rand. The purpose of thi...
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers: Values Are Relational But Not Subjective
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers. Please follow the links to Objectivism for Intellectuals for new content. Thursday, February 7, 2013. Values Are Relational But Not Subjective. This article will give evidence and argument that this view is mistaken; that this reasoning is based on a confusion about what it means for values to be objective. No Both men can look objectively at the relationship of the pole to each one. If they specify whose. On the right. They can also both agree that, relative to Person ...
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers: Man's Nature
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers. Please follow the links to Objectivism for Intellectuals for new content. A special part of metaphysics that covers the junction between metaphysics and epistemology, from which ethics arises. Values Are Relational But Not Subjective. QuickPoint 1: Thinking is Individual. The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts. By Harry Binswanger (Advanced book. Not for the casual reader.). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Please see the About page for more. A priori vs. a posteriori.
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers: Future Articles
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Objectivism for Deep Thinkers. Please follow the links to Objectivism for Intellectuals for new content. This page is dedicated to some of the articles that I am planning on writing, but haven't yet. This list is neither exhaustive, nor set in stone:. Bridging the "Is/Ought Gap": Objectivist Meta-Ethics. The Objectivist Ethics and Evolutionary Theory. Is a Compromise Between Reason and Emotion as Guides to Action Legitimate? The Meaning of the Concept of "Altruism.". Degrees of Certainty in Knowledge.
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