As they evolved over hundreds of millennia, human beings developed some innate physical desires and psychological predispositions through
The free market can provide as much security as a statist system. And statism is more to blame for economic instability than most people
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...
Well, if you’re referring to an objective, rational view of the universe as it really is (the perspective Objectivism adopts), God simply...
In the Objectivist view, the rights of human beings arise from their rational faculty and their ability to live as independent producers....
The Atlas Society does not at this time have an official position on the Free State Project. However, I think it is safe to say that the
Objectivism is an individualist philosophy. It holds that each person is a rational animal and that all individuals....
I have not been blogging for the last month in order to devote my full time to an historically important violation of Business Rights. Now..
Objectivism views emotions as the result and reflection of an individual's value judgments. Our emotional reactions to events, people and o
There is no “official” definition of fundamentalism as it relates to secular groups. The term itself is a little difficult to define. Take..
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...
There are four points that need to be made in response to your question.First, "non-existence" is not the name of something. "Existence"....
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
January 24. 2010 -- Beginning this week, we will be publishing daily dispatches from two TNI freelance journalists "in the field" in Armenia
People sometimes speak of a beautiful soul or similarly abstract beautiful qualities, but for the moment let us confine ourselves to beauty
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