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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:59 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:34 am
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:09 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:04 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:01 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:34 pm
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Wordstreamer~Nifty Fairy~
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:37 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:44 pm
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I've gone to Wikipedia to look into this idea, and objectivism just goes to a kind of disambiguation page with about 10 different articles...
Quote: Objectivism is a philosophy[1] developed by Ayn Rand that encompasses positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Objectivism holds that there is a mind-independent reality; that individuals are in contact with this reality through sensory perception; that humans gain objective knowledge from perception by measurement, and by forming concepts that correspond to natural categories by measurement omission; that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or "rational self-interest;" that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual human rights, embodied in pure, consensual laissez-faire capitalism; and that the role of art in human life is to transform abstract knowledge, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form - a work of art - that one can apprehend and respond to with the whole of one's consciousness.
Is this article the correct one to look at?
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:53 am
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KoopaTroopaMaria I've gone to Wikipedia to look into this idea, and objectivism just goes to a kind of disambiguation page with about 10 different articles... Quote: Objectivism is a philosophy[1] developed by Ayn Rand that encompasses positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Objectivism holds that there is a mind-independent reality; that individuals are in contact with this reality through sensory perception; that humans gain objective knowledge from perception by measurement, and by forming concepts that correspond to natural categories by measurement omission; that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or "rational self-interest;" that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual human rights, embodied in pure, consensual laissez-faire capitalism; and that the role of art in human life is to transform abstract knowledge, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form - a work of art - that one can apprehend and respond to with the whole of one's consciousness. Is this article the correct one to look at?
That certainly seems to sum it up in a nutshell. I haven't actually looked at the entire wiki article, but I see nothing to disagree with in what you've quoted.
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 6:35 pm
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engineer-of-doom KoopaTroopaMaria I've gone to Wikipedia to look into this idea, and objectivism just goes to a kind of disambiguation page with about 10 different articles... Quote: Objectivism is a philosophy[1] developed by Ayn Rand that encompasses positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Objectivism holds that there is a mind-independent reality; that individuals are in contact with this reality through sensory perception; that humans gain objective knowledge from perception by measurement, and by forming concepts that correspond to natural categories by measurement omission; that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or "rational self-interest;" that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual human rights, embodied in pure, consensual laissez-faire capitalism; and that the role of art in human life is to transform abstract knowledge, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form - a work of art - that one can apprehend and respond to with the whole of one's consciousness. Is this article the correct one to look at? That certainly seems to sum it up in a nutshell. I haven't actually looked at the entire wiki article, but I see nothing to disagree with in what you've quoted.
so objectivism doesn't believe there's any sort of reduction or alienation occurring between objective reality and the abstractions of reality (measurement, categorization, etc.)?
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:33 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:50 am
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:32 am
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Nosferateu9 Oh, okay! ^^ Is morality important in day to day life, then?
According to Dictionary.com, "morality" means: The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct. This being said, Ayn Rand and her Objectivist philosophy fully accepts and embraces said morality.
But what is moral for those involved in thoughts of Objectivism? Morality, as said above, is choosing the right and avoiding the wrong. The true path of mankind is rational selfishness, that is, that no one should be sacrificing their own self for the sake of another, or asking another to sacrifice himself for the sake of the asking person. It upholds that the value of human life is to live a happy one, and to survive by the means of its own ways.
So yes, morality is the center of this philosophy.
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:07 am
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:41 am
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