... : providing guidance and assistance to individuals who want to start a new Objectivist community club. There are dozens of community groups currently ... learned a lot about how to start and run a successful Objectivist club; we want to apply this knowledge to help in starting new community ... , Matt mattgerber@oclubs.org P.S. The Objectivist Club Network (OCN) is an organization dedicated ...

Lewis conveys objectivist values in a futher sense. Just as Spirit must incarnate itself in creation, so the artist necessarily incarnates himself in using the materils of his craft, the moralist in beneficent action...More completely than elsewhere, in the "Summa" he condems also what Alexander calls the "dangerous practice of introspection.*" At our most spiritual, we look ...

... need assistance in order to survive in society?" The Objectivist response is that the individual can do whatever he wishes to do, but that he can not claim the right to force ... be altruistic and yet need to be forced to think of anyone but ourselves. This is a contradiction of epic proportions. The Objectivist stance on the less fortunate is simple. Let each and every individual choose ...

... the Russian-born novelist and philosopher, but rather a more obscure volume called Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, which I read extremely slowly so I could take in the complexity of the thought. It& ... that?   *One quick thing I wanted to say about Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology is that it is an unfairly ignored and misunderstood work on how concepts are formed, shunned by ...

... Rand Letters Letters of Ayn Rand Lexicon The Ayn Rand Lexicon Margin Ayn Rand's Marginalia Mediocrity The Objectivist Forum v.2 no.3 (pamphlet with "The Age of Mediocrity") Obj The Objectivist Obj News The Objectivist Newsletter (pages numbered as four separate volumes) Playboy Playboy interview Wallace Mike Wallace Interviews Ayn ...

... a particular group of people and overemphasizes national/ethnic identities and cultural differences in an objectivist perspective. These scholars seem to agree that "culturalism" (or the use of culture in an uncritical and systematic way to explain intercultural encounters) tends to give a very objectivist-differentialist vision of "cultures"; it also corresponds to " ...

... it to be. Rand identified the problem behind this collective surrender in “The Objectivist Ethics” by indicating that Although it claims that its chief concern is life on ... best kept apart, and disastrous when combined. Furthermore –and here I am moving outside of the context of Objectivist Philosophy to address a point in theology- it is an act of extreme inconsistency to ...

... on Ayn Rand, Shikha Dalmia neatly summarizes a major problem in Objectivist ethics: This has profound and unfortunate political consequences. On the practical level, it ... ;ll be down, crushed, and broken, and we'll need someone to pick us up -- with no expectation of remuneration. The Objectivist would simply pass by without stopping. And a society wholly comprised of such individuals will ...

... , these are usually ethics of freedom or anti-totalitarian ethical theories, even if they are objectivist in their contents. Ms. Cohen tells us that Heidegger's work is an attack ... who is a Nazi, racist or anti-semitic -- even when he or she calls himself something else, like a "Randian Objectivist" in Miami -- is despicable or idiotic at best. Right, John? How are things in Trenton? ...

... patents are the heart and core of property rights." See also my post Inventors are Like Unto .... GODS , noting Objectivist IP attorney Murray Franck approvingly repeating this quote: "intellectual property is after ... value, and explicitly drop the connection between property rights and scarcity. As I note in footnote 76 of Against Intellectual Property, Objectivist David Kelley wrote: