Children's Rights II
In a general sense, Objectivists hold that children should be legally protected from abuse and from extremes of parental neglect. There is..
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In a general sense, Objectivists hold that children should be legally protected from abuse and from extremes of parental neglect. There is..
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
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..
I am not a Kantian, nor an expert on Kantianism. But the common understanding of "a-priori" is knowledge that can be established prior to...
In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court declared a constitutionally protected right to abortion. Far from resolving the debate that gave rise to it..
Benevolence and tolerance are considered part of the Objectivist view of ethics, even though they are not explicitly stated among the.....
Consider what it would take to try to prove that there is no such thing as a supernatural realm. What evidence would you cite to prove that
People sometimes speak of a beautiful soul or similarly abstract beautiful qualities, but for the moment let us confine ourselves to beauty
Rights only apply to rational beings whose needs are best fulfilled by production and trade...
I hope you have read D. Moskovitz's answer on agnosticism. If not, you can find it here .You are right: we will never be omniscient. And
The distinction between judging actions as evil and judging people as evil is fully discussed in David Kelley's seminal essay Truth and.....
The big influences on Hamilton were the economists he read and also the philosophers of natural law and English constitutional law....