Emotions, Brain Chemistry, and Mental Disorders
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
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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...
Externalities,” in economic terms, are costs or benefits imposed on third parties during the normal course of economic activity. So, if a...
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....
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 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...
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