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Rand and Anna Karenina

Ayn Rand indeed regarded Anna Karenina as her least favorite novel. She presented her negative analysis of Anna Karenina in the article...

29. September 2010
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Michelle Fram-Cohen
2 Min.
Progressivism and Objectivism

If only Progressivism could be a genus of Objectivism! But, alas, no.The Progressive movement was originally an intellectual and political

29. September 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
4 Min.
Pyramid of Ability and Individual Moral Worth

Objectivism holds that in a society in which people deal with each other by trade, there will exist a "pyramid of ability." It is a pyramid

29. September 2010
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3 Min.
Pornografie

Meines Wissens gibt es im Objektivismus keine etablierte Position zur Pornographie. Hier ist jedoch mein Versuch, eine objektivistische

28. September 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
2 Min.
Armut und Behinderungen

The Objectivist answer to poverty and other social problems is: 1) create a society in which people have clear reasons to be responsible...

28. September 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
3 Min.
Problems with Subjective Arguments for Statism

Subjective criteria like "I like it" of course can't be proven as you say. And that is, in fact, why they are wrong. I can't add any more..

28. September 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
2 Min.
Organized Government

Please see our Q&A " What is the Objectivist View of Law and Government ?" which describes the general Objectivist approach to politics. Thi

28. September 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
3 Min.
Polygamie

Der Objektivismus hat keine feste Position zur einvernehmlichen Polygamie. Beachten Sie, dass ich diese Antwort auf die Polyandrie beziehe (eine feste Beziehung

28. September 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
3 Min.
Prisoner's Dilemma

First, let me remark that you are right that Objectivism doesn't share Singer's idea of interest. We can see this by looking at the real...

28. September 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
4 Min.
Philosophy Scholarship and Rand

Ayn Rand is not a revered figure in academic philosophy at this time. But there is a growing body of scholarship on her ideas by academic

28. September 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
2 Min.
Natural Rights

Rights are fundamental political principles. As such, they are based in morality. They summarize how human beings ought to be treated in a

28. September 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
2 Min.
Objectivism and Individualism

"Individualism" is a term for classifying theories, such as ethical or social theories. Any theory that places the individual foremost or

28. September 2010
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Wilhelm Thomas
2 Min.
Mehr zu Tierrechten

Ayn Rand definierte ein Recht als ein "moralisches Prinzip, das die Handlungsfreiheit eines Menschen in einem sozialen Kontext definiert und sanktioniert" (The Virtue of

28. September 2010
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Malini Kochhar
3 Min.
Cato and the Enlightenment Mind

One of the strangest stories in English literature is the rise and fall of Joseph Addison’s Cato, which was first performed in London in....

Sep 19, 2010
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Stephen Miller
10 Min.
Robert Nozick und der gute Kampf

Derjenige, der etwas herstellt, nachdem er alle anderen Ressourcen, die in diesem Prozess verwendet werden, gekauft oder in Auftrag gegeben hat, hat ein Recht darauf. Die Situation ist nicht

9. September 2010
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
4 Min.
The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism

Individualism seemed to have few accomplishments and fewer adherents, back when I first encountered it, some forty-five years ago...

8. September 2010
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8 Min.
Sidebar: Pioniere des Egalitarismus

Richard Henry Tawney (1880-1962) war ein britischer Historiker, der die meiste Zeit seiner Karriere an der London School of Economics verbrachte. Er schrieb viel über

8. September 2010
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David Kelley, Ph.D.
2 Min.
Dying of the Light

Among the repercussions of last September's terrorist attacks is a heightened awareness among Objectivists of a phenomenon we, as lovers of

7. September 2010
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Richard Speer
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Not the Matrix, Pal

Spring 2009 -- If you’ve ever been queried by a skeptic who doubts the very existence of reality, you know how aggravating...

7. September 2010
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Anja Hartleb
8 Min.
Beyond Good and Bad

February 2002 -- The virtue of selfishness has become a tough sell. Before September 11, one could score points for egoism by elaborating

7. September 2010
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12 Minuten

Nous promouvons un objectivisme ouvert : la philosophie de la raison, de la réussite, de l'individualisme et de la liberté.