Happiness is a complex emotion that proceeds from living one’s life with success and intensity. To achieve it, one must correctly identify
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..
Objectivism holds that there is no "supernatural" world. For more on this, see our Q&A on Religion and our Q&A on metaphysics...
Objectivism holds that productive work is, as Ayn Rand put it, man’s “noblest activity.” Whether one is a janitor or a philosopher, he
In a general sense, Objectivists hold that children should be legally protected from abuse and from extremes of parental neglect. There is..
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
As they evolved over hundreds of millennia, human beings developed some innate physical desires and psychological predispositions through
The person who said that simply misunderstood Objectivism .In social relations, Objectivism holds that your rational self-interest is best
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 does not have a “strict physicalist doctrine.” It merely holds that whatever exists exists, has identity, and has causal powers
To be objective means to be based on features of reality that can be observed or deduced by anyone. Scientific experiments are objective....
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
It is neither always wrong nor always right to hold off having sex until one is married. Whether it is right or wrong for you is a personal
Question: I would like to know how Objectivism is different from hedonism, at least as far as morality is concerned. They seem very similar
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
January 24. 2010 -- Beginning this week, we will be publishing daily dispatches from two TNI freelance journalists "in the field" in Armenia
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
Objectivism is an atheistic philosophy because there is neither a coherent concept of what God would be nor are any of the arguments offered
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..
