Sociobiology and Altruism
Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives
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Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives
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Ayn Rand indeed regarded Anna Karenina as her least favorite novel. She presented her negative analysis of Anna Karenina in the article...
First, let me remark that you are right that Objectivism doesn't share Singer's idea of interest. We can see this by looking at the real...
There is not to my knowledge a well-established position on pornography in Objectivism . However, here is my attempt to give an Objectivist
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February 2002 -- The virtue of selfishness has become a tough sell. Before September 11, one could score points for egoism by elaborating
In reacting to the Enron scandal, many cultural commentators have been quick to recur to a favorite theme: the corrupting power of commerce
The Objectivist ethics holds the human good does not require human sacrifices and cannot be achieved by the sacrifices of anyone to anyone.
I am sitting on the shore of Lake Ontario. It is late spring, and the sun rose about five minutes ago. The waters, which appeared blue
Objectivism reads "I am my brother's keeper" as a short-hand for an ideal of self-sacrifice and service to the group. In other words, it...
In 1917, Bolsheviks under Lenin seized control of Russia in the famous October revolution, ending a short-lived experiment with .....
Twenty years ago, on February 24, 1990, George Walsh and David Kelley stood before a crowded lecture hall in New York City to announce the
The Objectivist morality, Ayn Rand said, is based on the choice to live. A perennial question in Objectivism is whether....
I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds ...
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The capitalist system came of age in the century from 1750 to 1850 as a result of three revolutions. The first was a political revolution...
Dr. Stephen Hicks is chairman of the philosophy department at Rockford College, and executive director of the Center for Ethics and....
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