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Objectivism recognizes the necessity of a rational governmental authority that performs the basic functions of maintaining law and order...
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..
Objectivism does not have a “strict physicalist doctrine.” It merely holds that whatever exists exists, has identity, and has causal powers
People sometimes speak of a beautiful soul or similarly abstract beautiful qualities, but for the moment let us confine ourselves to beauty
In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court declared a constitutionally protected right to abortion. Far from resolving the debate that gave rise to it..
Objectivism is an atheistic philosophy because there is neither a coherent concept of what God would be nor are any of the arguments offered
Benevolence and tolerance are considered part of the Objectivist view of ethics, even though they are not explicitly stated among the.....
I hope you have read D. Moskovitz's answer on agnosticism. If not, you can find it here .You are right: we will never be omniscient. And
You are right that Newton was not in a position to say in detail whether atoms or sub-atomic particles existed. We, like Newton, have plenty
Consider what it would take to try to prove that there is no such thing as a supernatural realm. What evidence would you cite to prove that
Rights only apply to rational beings whose needs are best fulfilled by production and trade...
Ayn Rand argued that those who mete out death to others certainly deserve it back as a matter of justice (assuming that we are speaking of..
I am not a Kantian, nor an expert on Kantianism. But the common understanding of "a-priori" is knowledge that can be established prior to...
The distinction between judging actions as evil and judging people as evil is fully discussed in David Kelley's seminal essay Truth and.....
The big influences on Hamilton were the economists he read and also the philosophers of natural law and English constitutional law....
In Viable Values, Tara Smith sets forth an exposition of Ayn Rand's metaethical theory and defends it against competing views regarding the
James Davison Hunter, a professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of Virginia and director of the Institute for
A writer suffering from clinical depression finds relief from Prozac. Realizing how profoundly the drug's inventor has affected her life....
One firm belief that I bring to the Business Rights Center is: Philosophy matters. Without a theoretical defense of the fundamentals...
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