According to L.H. Rockwell, Jr. (founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute) externalities can be subjective, as costs and....
Ayn Rand wrote out the passages that Leonard Peikoff cites in The Fountainhead , Centennial Edition (728–732) in her journals from late...
There are four points that need to be made in response to your question.First, "non-existence" is not the name of something. "Existence"....
I have not been blogging for the last month in order to devote my full time to an historically important violation of Business Rights. Now..
Objectivism is an individualist philosophy. It holds that each person is a rational animal and that all individuals....
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...
Objectivism recognizes the necessity of a rational governmental authority that performs the basic functions of maintaining law and order...
Externalities,” in economic terms, are costs or benefits imposed on third parties during the normal course of economic activity. So, if a...
In the Objectivist view, the rights of human beings arise from their rational faculty and their ability to live as independent producers....
As such, Nash's contributions to non-cooperative game theory were a major breakthrough in the formal analysis of strategic interaction...
Is it against Objectivist principles to date non-Objectivists? Absolutely not...
Well, if you’re referring to an objective, rational view of the universe as it really is (the perspective Objectivism adopts), God simply...
There is no established Objectivist position on gay marriage per se. However, I think Objectivism can be seen to apply to the issues at hand
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
Ayn Rand held that charity is not a major virtue. Objectivism holds that how you spend your money is your business. Your ultimate moral aim
Existentialism is not a very unified school of thought. The main existentialists—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre—disagree
That we have free will is self-evident. You chose to write this question. Indeed, most fundamentally, you chose to think about it. This is
The free market can provide as much security as a statist system. And statism is more to blame for economic instability than most people
Deism is the belief that an omnipotent, eternal, and all-knowing God created reality and set its rules, but that the Deity does not interven
You can find a discussion of one form of "escapism" (fantasy fiction) in my article " The Charms and Enchantments of Fantasy ." Or consider