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| FAQ | FAQ Love and Sex | Andrew Bissell | 3/9/2005 |
| Description: Romantic love is a profoundly selfish act: it is based in one’s own values and should be undertaken for the sake of one’s own happiness. Objectivism holds that we love another person most profoundly when we love him or her as a whole person, one who is physical and spiritual, sexual and rational. And we experience our greatest sense of self and one of the fullest pleasures in life when we are loved in this complete and integrated way. |
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| Center News | Explaining Postmodernism published! | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Stephen Hicks’s book Explaining Postmodernism, written while a senior fellow at The Objectivist Center, has been published by Scholargy. The book traces postmodernism from its roots in Rousseau and Kant through its current adherents, such as Foucault and Rorty. |
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| Center News | Objectivism from the Source | | 6/1/2004 |
| Description: The Objectivist Center will hold a distance learning course from September 15 through December 1, 2004; learn about Objectivism from your home! |
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| Interview | An Interview with Charles Murray | David Kelley | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: David Kelley talks with the author of Human Accomplishment about his work’s philosophical premises and arguments, including the objectivity of excellence and the significance of expert opinion. They discuss as well the cultural history of the modern world and what it says about the driving forces underlying creativity. |
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| Review | What Hath Man Wrought! | William Thomas | 4/1/2004 |
| Description: Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment is a study of mankind’s remarkable discoveries and creations. Covering 2,750 years, from 800 B.C. to 1950, it employs anecdote and argument to awaken “a sense of wonder” at the greatest feats of human accomplishment in art and science. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: 9-11: The Ultimate Philosophy Lesson | Edward Hudgins | 9/10/2003 |
| Description: 9-11 teaches us that a rational philosophy is literally a matter of life and death.
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| FAQ | FAQ: What is a Philosophy? | William Thomas | 2/8/2002 |
| Description: A philosophy is a comprehensive system of ideas about human nature and the nature of the reality we live in. It is a guide for living, because the issues it addresses are basic and pervasive, determining the course we take in life and how we treat other people. |
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| FAQ | FAQ: What is Objectivism? | William Thomas | 2/8/2002 |
| Description: "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." —Ayn Rand |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Why Does Anyone Need a Philosophy? | William Thomas | 2/8/2002 |
| Description: "You have no choice about the necessity to integrate your observations, your experiences, your knowledge into abstract ideas, i.e., into principles. Your only choice is whether these principles are true or false, whether they represent your conscious, rational convictions—or a grab-bag of notions snatched at random, whose sources, validity, and consequences you do not know, notions which, more often than not, you would drop like a hot potato if you knew." — Ayn Rand |
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| FAQ | FAQ: Why is Objectivism a System of Ideas? | William Thomas | 2/8/2002 |
| Description: "I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows."—Ayn Rand |
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| Commentary | Unilateral Moral Disarmament | Robert James Bidinotto | 9/21/2001 |
| Description: Robert James Bidinotto explains why certain philosophic principles led the terrorists to committ the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and how philosophic ideas prevalent in America morally disarmed us from properly protecting our country from an attack like September 11, 2001. |
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| Review | Teaching Virtue in a Postmodern World | Roger Donway | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: Navigator's editor, Roger Donway, notes that James Davision Hunter's The Death of Character asks a very pertinent question: How can we teach morality in grammar school and high school when our college professors assert that no morality can be validated? |
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| Commentary | Decline Demands Philosophers, Not Censors | Roger Donway | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Roger Donway shows why a society in decline needs philosophers, not censors, to preserve and restore its culture. |
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| Article | Should Ayn Rand Have Been a Feminist? | Bryan Register | 3/1/2000 |
| Description: An examination of the relationship between Ayn Rand and feminism. |
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| Interview | Stephen Hicks on Post-modernism | | 2/1/1999 |
| Description: An interview with Prof. Hicks on the topic of Postmodernism, covering the role of Hume, Rousseau, Kant , and Heidegger, how the belief in science was destroyed in the eyes of Western philosophers and how that fostered post-modernism, and Hicks's surprising explanations for the popularity of post-modernism. |
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| Interview | The Enlightenment Mind of John M. Ellis | | 8/1/1998 |
| Description: This interview with John M. Ellis focuses on his involvement in fighting the culture wars, the political correctness found on campus, and his most recent book, Literature Lost. |
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| Letters | Letters: Rand as a Philosopher (April 1998) | | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: John Robbins and Bryan Register debate the merits of Ayn Rand as a philosopher. |
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| Excerpt | The Green Machine | Robert James Bidinotto | 5/1/1993 |
| Description: An excerpt from Robert Bidinotto's text The Green Machine in which he traced the origins of today's environmentalism, challenged its philosophical premises, and debunks mnany of its crises. |
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| Review | Peikoff's Summa | David Kelley | 3/1/1992 |
| Description: A review of Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff |
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| Study Guide | Foundations Study Guide: Literary Theory | Stephen Cox | |
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| Excerpt | Objectivism, Chapter 5 of Truth and Toleration | David Kelley | |
| Description: Chapter Five of Truth and Toleration by David Kelley. Truth and Toleration has been republished as The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand |
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| Study Guide | Foundations Study Guide: Philosophy of Mathematics | David Ross | |
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| Audio | Postmodernism Audio | Stephen Hicks | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. Offering a systematic analysis and dissection of the post-modernist movement, Dr. Hicks outlines the core Objectivist tenets needed to rejuvenate the Enlightenment spirit.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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| Study Guide | Foundations Study Guide: Business Ethics | Stephen Hicks | |
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| Study Guide | Foundations Study Guide: Epistemology | David Kelley | |
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| Study Guide | Foundations Study Guide: Ancient Greek Philosophy | George Brakas | |
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