Game Theory and Objectivism
As such, Nash's contributions to non-cooperative game theory were a major breakthrough in the formal analysis of strategic interaction...
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As such, Nash's contributions to non-cooperative game theory were a major breakthrough in the formal analysis of strategic interaction...
Happiness is a complex emotion that proceeds from living one’s life with success and intensity. To achieve it, one must correctly identify
In a general sense, Objectivists hold that children should be legally protected from abuse and from extremes of parental neglect. There is..
Question: I would like to know how Objectivism is different from hedonism, at least as far as morality is concerned. They seem very similar
It is neither always wrong nor always right to hold off having sex until one is married. Whether it is right or wrong for you is a personal
There is no established Objectivist position on gay marriage per se. However, I think Objectivism can be seen to apply to the issues at hand
Ayn Rand held that charity is not a major virtue. Objectivism holds that how you spend your money is your business. Your ultimate moral aim
That we have free will is self-evident. You chose to write this question. Indeed, most fundamentally, you chose to think about it. This is
We are integrated beings of mind and body. Simply put, this means that one's mental functions are the product of an organ (which turns out
First, in a free society there really isn't as much of a class system as you may think. The correlation between a person's income and that
I think you are asking to what extent it is right to embrace and follow teachings that are in some aspect known to be false. Examples would
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...
Ayn Rand wrote out the passages that Leonard Peikoff cites in The Fountainhead , Centennial Edition (728–732) in her journals from late...
According to L.H. Rockwell, Jr. (founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute) externalities can be subjective, as costs and....
Ayn Rand was a radical thinker, i.e., one who went to the root of long-standing philosophical problems. She was self-consciously opposed to
Objectivism holds that there is no "supernatural" world. For more on this, see our Q&A on Religion and our Q&A on metaphysics...
Objectivism is an individualist philosophy. It holds that each person is a rational animal and that all individuals....
Objectivism views emotions as the result and reflection of an individual's value judgments. Our emotional reactions to events, people and o
Existentialism is not a very unified school of thought. The main existentialists—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre—disagree
Is it against Objectivist principles to date non-Objectivists? Absolutely not...
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