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Sports, Teams, and Collectivism

Sports are stylized, physical activities that call on a usually limited range of human talents, but they showcase excellence in the areas

Sep 30, 2010
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2 Mins
Sociobiology and Altruism

Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives

Sep 30, 2010
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Suicide and Assisted Suicide

The question of the moral permissibility of suicide for an egoistic philosophy is fascinating. It is challenging for Objectivism , which

Sep 30, 2010
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ويليام ديل
4 Mins
Spiritual Values

Objectivists mean by "spiritual values" those values that fulfill the needs of human consciousness. The word "spirit" indeed refers

Sep 30, 2010
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2 Mins
Rand and Anna Karenina

Ayn Rand indeed regarded Anna Karenina as her least favorite novel. She presented her negative analysis of Anna Karenina in the article...

Sep 29, 2010
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ميشيل فرام-كوهين
2 Mins
Pornography

There is not to my knowledge a well-established position on pornography in Objectivism . However, here is my attempt to give an Objectivist

Sep 28, 2010
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ويليام توماس
2 Mins
Polygamy

Objectivism does not have a fixed position on consensual polygamy. Note that I mean this answer to apply to polyandry (a committed relations

Sep 28, 2010
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ويليام توماس
3 Mins
Prisoner's Dilemma

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...

Sep 28, 2010
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ويليام توماس
4 Mins
Dying of the Light

Among the repercussions of last September's terrorist attacks is a heightened awareness among Objectivists of a phenomenon we, as lovers of

Sep 7, 2010
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ريتشارد سبير
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Beyond Good and Bad

February 2002 -- The virtue of selfishness has become a tough sell. Before September 11, one could score points for egoism by elaborating

Sep 7, 2010
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12 Mins
The Morality of Money

In reacting to the Enron scandal, many cultural commentators have been quick to recur to a favorite theme: the corrupting power of commerce

Sep 1, 2010
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ويليام توماس
5 Mins
How Can One Create a Harmony of Interests Among People?

The Objectivist ethics holds the human good does not require human sacrifices and cannot be achieved by the sacrifices of anyone to anyone.

Jun 29, 2010
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ويليام توماس
5 Mins
The Best Work of the Best Minds

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

Jun 29, 2010
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دكتوراه ستيفن هيكيس
9 Mins
Does Being Your Brother's Keeper Cause You Strife?

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...

Jun 29, 2010
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ويليام توماس
5 Mins
The Capitalist Ideal: The Moral Vision of "Atlas Shrugged"

In 1917, Bolsheviks under Lenin seized control of Russia in the famous October revolution, ending a short-lived experiment with .....

Jun 26, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
10 Mins
The Founding of The Atlas Society

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

Jun 24, 2010
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2 Mins
Choosing Life

The Objectivist morality, Ayn Rand said, is based on the choice to live. A perennial question in Objectivism is whether....

Jun 22, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
10 Mins
Self Help: Egotists vs. Egoists

I would say that, over the last twenty-five years, the biggest triumph of the Enlightenment view is that people have grasped the concept...

Jun 18, 2010
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9 mins
What is the Objectivist Position in Morality (Ethics)?

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds ...

Jun 15, 2010
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ويليام توماس
5 Mins
A Short Course in Rule-Breaking

Near the beginning of the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy is challenged to a knife fight by another member of his Ho

May 30, 2010
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ديفيد كيلي، دكتوراه
8 Mins

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