April 2008 -- Editor’s note: I’m pleased to yield my usual editorial space this month to Gene Holloway, director of operations and
Down here in south Texas, I’m occasionally drawn unawares into conversations with congregants of the evangelical Cornerstone Church, whose..
Objectivists would try to employ any technology that reliably allowed them to live longer, fuller lives. It is wonderful and life-affirming
Question: I found the following text in an article by Patrick O'Neil (Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 7, no. 1) and would like to know
Question: How does Objectivism define and classify sexual desire and lust? It seems they do not actually flow from convictions, but instead
Contrary to logical positivism, the cognitive meaning of a statement is not equal to its means of verification. Instead, the meaning of a...
Under laissez-faire capitalism, I doubt that there would be any blanket legal duty to reveal information that would harm one’s business....
April 2008 -- If Wernher von Braun had died in 1945 at the end of World War Two, he would have been remembered as the man who led the team..
Your argument is correct. But I will elaborate a little to make clear the Objectivist view.....
An ideal Objectivist society would be one where there would be maximum individual freedom, and minimum governmental functions, primary among
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 "...
Induction is the process of reaching general conclusions from particular facts. It is contrasted in logic with deduction, which is the proce
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
Ayn Rand maintained the necessity of a government that kept its “hands off” the private lives of its citizens, while at the same time......
People act unselfishly all the time. Indeed, that is one key to what is wrong with much of the world. It certainly explains why so many love
April 2008 -- Whatever you do, don’t get caught uttering this word. It is the latest addition to a growing list of taboo speech. If you are
Love is an essential value we obtain from other people. In giving love, we are responding to our own values realized and made beautiful by a
Workers' pay in the laissez-faire era of the19th century rose steadily with the innovations that increased productivity and lowered prices..
Ayn Rand criticized both the “liberal” Left and the “conservative” Right poles of American politics. She identified both major political
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