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Ayn Rand maintained the necessity of a government that kept its “hands off” the private lives of its citizens, while at the same time......
Contrary to logical positivism, the cognitive meaning of a statement is not equal to its means of verification. Instead, the meaning of a...
An ideal Objectivist society would be one where there would be maximum individual freedom, and minimum governmental functions, primary among
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
Question: I would like to know how Objectivism is different from hedonism, at least as far as morality is concerned. They seem very similar
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
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
To be objective means to be based on features of reality that can be observed or deduced by anyone. Scientific experiments are objective....
Objectivism does not have a “strict physicalist doctrine.” It merely holds that whatever exists exists, has identity, and has causal powers
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
In a general sense, Objectivists hold that children should be legally protected from abuse and from extremes of parental neglect. There is..
Objectivism holds that there is no "supernatural" world. For more on this, see our Q&A on Religion and our Q&A on metaphysics...
Objectivism views emotions as the result and reflection of an individual's value judgments. Our emotional reactions to events, people and o
Happiness is a complex emotion that proceeds from living one’s life with success and intensity. To achieve it, one must correctly identify
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
Existentialism is not a very unified school of thought. The main existentialists—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre—disagree
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
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
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
Is it against Objectivist principles to date non-Objectivists? Absolutely not...