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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..

Jan 25, 2011
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Criticisms of Objectivism

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

Jan 25, 2011
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Free Will and Causality

Objectivism does not have a “strict physicalist doctrine.” It merely holds that whatever exists exists, has identity, and has causal powers

Jan 25, 2011
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Egoism and Capitalism vs. Altruism and Communism

To be objective means to be based on features of reality that can be observed or deduced by anyone. Scientific experiments are objective....

Jan 25, 2011
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Brian Gordon
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False Beliefs and Practical Guidance

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

Jan 25, 2011
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Chastity before Marriage

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

Jan 25, 2011
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Hedonism

Question: I would like to know how Objectivism is different from hedonism, at least as far as morality is concerned. They seem very similar

Jan 25, 2011
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Education for the Poor

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

Jan 25, 2011
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Agnosticism and the Unknown: Round Two

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

Jan 23, 2011
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Atheism--Pascal's Wager

Objectivism is an atheistic philosophy because there is neither a coherent concept of what God would be nor are any of the arguments offered

Jan 23, 2011
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Capital Punishment

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..

Jan 23, 2011
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Axioms and the A-Priori

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...

Jan 23, 2011
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Abortion

In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court declared a constitutionally protected right to abortion. Far from resolving the debate that gave rise to it..

Jan 23, 2011
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Benevolence and Self-Assertiveness

Benevolence and tolerance are considered part of the Objectivist view of ethics, even though they are not explicitly stated among the.....

Jan 23, 2011
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Malini Kochhar
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Agnosticism and Proof

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

Jan 23, 2011
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Andrew Bissell
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Beauty and Moral Judgment

People sometimes speak of a beautiful soul or similarly abstract beautiful qualities, but for the moment let us confine ourselves to beauty

Jan 23, 2011
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Animal Rights

Rights only apply to rational beings whose needs are best fulfilled by production and trade...

Jan 23, 2011
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Agnosticism and the Unknown

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

Jan 23, 2011
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Judging Actions vs. Judging People

The distinction between judging actions as evil and judging people as evil is fully discussed in David Kelley's seminal essay Truth and.....

Jan 6, 2011
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The American Enlightenment's Other Side

The big influences on Hamilton were the economists he read and also the philosophers of natural law and English constitutional law....

Oct 22, 2010
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