Sentences with word «objectivism»

Secular Animist, earlier you offered some criticisms of Objectivism in comment 220 of this thread.

That purpose is to issue an emphatic historical reminder to all of us who criticize the ethos of objectivism in the name of communitarian accounts of knowledge and truth.

Ayn Rand was an atheist who had a philosophy called Objectivism, which wasn't» an atheist philosophy.

You seem to be confusing Objectivism with Pacifism.

Rational self interest was one of Rand's lynch pins to her theory of objectivism which is in direct conflict with collectivism.

My point is that American religious empiricists, while they may have lapsed into objectivism at times, consistently can acknowledge a third position, a speculative and radically empirical realism — or, a religious historicism.

Again, Communism begets Objectivism.

subjectivism vs objectivism: Unless you are infallible, you must agree that your perception of reality is but a model, and your model may not agree with the next guy's model.

Rand's objectivism promotes achievement at the highest level for the sake of whatever field your achievement is in; not just because you subjectively think you're the best.

Objectivism as the best alternative to violence: both Rorty and Palmer ignore this important truth about the epistemological tradition they criticize, though they do so for different reasons.

I think you have to have the avowed belief in supernatural agents to be considered a religion, otherwise you get stuff like Objectivism (which is actively anti-religious) counting as a «religion.»

Inspired by the life of Pulitzer prize - winning journalist Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner) and his «Dark Alliance» exposé on the explosion of crack cocaine in the United States (which inevitably ruined his career), the film draws attention to the power and reach of fourth and fifth estate journalism and to the subjective objectivism of its gatekeepers.

UNDERSTANDING OBJECTIVISM: A Guide to Learning Ayn Rand's Philosophy (New American Library) Leonard Peikoff

New American Library has published a series of lectures about objectivism, seizing on the uptick in Ayn Rand interest among entrepreneurs.

Lululemon moves away from its peace and tranquility yoga roots in favour of Ayn Rand's dog - eat - downward - dog Objectivism.

Not the posture of value - detachment and apolitical objectivism but the articulation of one's social location, interpretive strategies and theoretical frameworks are appropriate in such a rhetorical paradigm of theological studies.

Scientific objectivism, it appears, pays only lip - service to the empirical imperative.

It's interesting to me to see how quickly Conservatives abandon Christianity in favor of Rand's Objectivism once they're actually asked to live one of the two philosophies.

Please look into what objectivism is and what Ayn Rand stood for before you respond.

@TheGarin, Not sure what you read, but Ayn Rand's philosophy, Rational Objectivism, and her books, Fountainhead, Anthem, etc., not just Atlas Shrugged, support rational self interest and unfettered capitalism.

I think Objectivism has flaws, but they aren't these.

These distinctions are important, because they help in part to explain why Rorty finally argues for an abandonment of epistemology altogether, whereas Palmer seeks to replace or supersede objectivism with another epistemology.

One strain of pragmatism has combined with logical positivism to produce objectivism.

And partly for this reason, he amalgamates one of these dissenting lines, pragmatism, with empiricism to describe objectivism.

The movement begins with Kierkegaard, who tries to do two things: to give a phenomenological description of anxiety as the occasion (not the cause) of sin, and to give a phenomenological account of the forms which result from man's fall such as loss of selfhood, impersonal objectivism, and despair.

Impelled by curiosity and the mania for control, objectivism fractures the bonds of community and tends inherently toward violence.

We must at least add the desire for civil peace to the two desires, curiosity and control, that Palmer has identified as the motives for objectivism.

Proudfoot seems to assume that if he eliminates a descriptive objectivism and the foundations on which it would rest, he is driven to mere language.

I would argue that objectivism arose initially and that it subsequently attained cultural dominion primarily because it was intended by its architects as a way of avoiding violence.

Moreover, Palmer's indictment of objectivism stems from his insight that epistemologies have moral trajectories, that ways of knowing are not morally neutral but morally directive.

Yet if Palmer is correct, as I think he is, in taking objectivism to be the epistemology that informs the practices of the modern university, and if I am correct in suggesting that James and others had already fashioned powerful alternative theories of knowledge as early as 1880, a vital historical question arises.

But those who welcome the supersession of the epistemological question by the community question need to recognize how deep - seated and how historically well - founded are the fears of foundationalists who believe that if objectivism disappears, force, not some new epistemology, will take its place.

And he retains in his own epistemological scheme objectivism's honorable opposition to self - centeredness.

The history of multifaceted cosmological expansionism within celestial symmetries comes from the terrestrial complacencies of planetary regularities and solarized objectivism wherever the abundance of inner cosmologies coalesces to form stars, planets and moons among many other fragmented structures within the spatial confines of a universally formed Cosmos.

Brunner believed that this personalistic, existential notion of truth as encounter was a fruitful — and biblical — alternative to the liberalism and subjectivism of Schleiermacher and the intellectualistic objectivism found in traditional Roman Catholicism and orthodox Protestantism.

(This at a time when the physical sciences were beginning to repudiate objectivism!)

But the fact that such objectivism was detectable (and detected by Whitehead) in Descartes throws a clearer light on the ontological principle's legacy.