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I don't know if the moderators will permit my previous «philosophical» comment which was verbosely critical of Objectivism, but in defense of Objectivism in the context of AGW denialism, it is my observation that the overwhelming majority of denialists who claim or appear to be «ideologically opposed to various scientific discoveries» are not operating on the basis of any such intellectual framework as Objectivism.

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

The former asks what kind of psychological trauma you'd have to experience to think putting on a costume and beating people up is the way to live your life; the latter flirts with objectivism in its insistence that everybody is special but some people are more special than others.

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.

Not exact matches

Seizing on the uptick in interest in Rand, New American Library has recently published a series of edited lectures by Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, to help expand our understanding of objectivism.

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

And yet in this deeply Christian, extravagantly post-Christian nation of ours, a number of sincere believers find the life of Christ and his saints somehow compatible with the sterile, preening, sub-adolescent egoism of Objectivism.

Now the so - called moral leaders of the right seem to be adopting the unseemly parts of objectivism and forgetting their altruism which is constantly supported in the Gospels.

The first element in the story is that metaphysical thought» also called «onto - theology,» «realism,» «objectivism,» and so on» has been decisively abandoned by the West.

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.

Such a position may be less exciting than either the early empiricists» «objectivism» or the «subjectivism» which many readers found in Kuhn's first edition.

This requires that we put ourselves at a distance as a first step in overcoming the alienated distance of objectivism.

Jurgen Habermas comments on the ontological illusion that Socratic dialogue is possible under any and all circumstances; whereas in fact attempts at dialogue are repeatedly closed off by invisible interests hidden behind objectivism's desire to derive everything from itself.

The interests which motivated our reading, and the applications we hoped to secure, move from the fringe of consciousness to which they were exiled by objectivism, and occupy a place of honor in the full light of critical awareness.

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.

Objectivism is rooted in Ayn Rand's version of rationality, and religious thought is very much at odds with that.

Objectivism and the Right Wing agenda both have in common intense self centered interest - which lies at the core of the Republican / Tea Party movement.

She expounded her philosophy, which she called objectivism, in nonfiction works and as editor of two journals and became an icon of radical libertarianism.»

Christianity and Objectivism are light years apart, and can not be reconciled in any meaningful way.

Though Yaron Brook (of the Ayn Rand Insitute) does generally misrepresent Objectivism - mostly in the personal freedom and foreign policy areas (see ARIwatch.com)- I don't think he would make a statement so at odds with the Objectivist idea of Capitalism.

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.

But, in general, he is very precise and one of the best defenders of Objectivism we he have today.

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.

Pragmatism, however, at least the pragmatism of William James, actually arose as a sharp protest against the kind of thinking that Palmer calls objectivism but which was called «positivism» at the time that James was writing in the 1870s and 1880s.

In view of this violent trajectory of objectivism, Palmer argues, «we must recover from our spiritual tradition the models and methods of knowing as an act of love.»

Palmer ignores it because he believes that in order to account for the violent trajectory of objectivism, he must find exclusively egoistic motivation — idle curiosity and the desire for control — as the basic impetus behind it.

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.

Palmer calls this scheme «objectivism,» and he describes it not so much in terms of a history of ideas or a group of thinkers as in terms of a set of pedagogical practices that characterize the contemporary academy.

Rather, as noted earlier, he derived objectivism from current pedagogical practice, and he never intended to suggest that objectivism, in the complete sense of the word, could be found in the writings of any given thinker or set of thinkers.

Dean suggests that American religious empiricists may have lapsed into objectivism at times, but a third position of speculative and radically empirical realism, a religious historicism, holds up well in the current forces of deconstructionism, neopragmatism, and language philosophy.

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

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.

Bellah calls his own view «symbolic realism» and he contrasts it both with the «primary naiveté» and «objectivism» of orthodoxy, and with the «functional reductionism» and «subjectivism» common in the social sciences.

Bultmann had already so clearly exposed the false consciousness of objectivism that it seems incredible that, rather than being in decline, it is flourishing.

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.»

We were caught in the web of intellectual objectivism, with its pretense of detachment, disembodied observation and uninvolvement as the ideal stance of the researcher.

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

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.

The individualism of the self - publishing authorpreneurs, is disturbingly close to Ayn Rand's Objectivism, in which the greatest goal is individual fulfilment.

Greenspan was a true believer in unfettered capitalism, an unabashed disciple and personal friend of philosopher - novelist Ayn Rand, whose philosophy of Objectivism urges its supporters to follow reason and self - interest above all else.

Here, with three paintings subtitled Nazism, Objectivism and Fascism (see main picture), fascism and Ayn Rand free - marketeering become interior décor tropes — you too, can get that period fascist look in your bathroom by following the design codes McKenzie carefully sets out in her little pin - board research project.

Objectivism begins with Ayn Rand's personal values, and works backwards from there to establish what sort of reality — in particular what sort of facts about human nature — would be required to prove that her values are the «right» ones because they are in accord with those facts.

Objectivism is in essence a philosophy that was «reverse engineered» from Ayn Rand's subjective value system, in order to claim that her particular personal values were «objectively» correct and true and good, and that other values were «objectively» wrong and false and evil.

Timothy Chase wrote: ``... my primary intent in bringing up Objectivism is first of all to give people some idea of what they are dealing with when they face people who are ideologically opposed to various scientific discoveries and to give those who are so opposed to such discoveries some personal insight.»

Assuming you are speaking of perception, Objectivism normally distinguishes between the form and the object of awareness — where the form is the way in which the object is grasped.

A Question of Meaning http://axismundi.hostzi.com/0/024.php * Anyway, my primary intent in bringing up Objectivism is first of all to give people some idea of what they are dealing with when they face people who are ideologically opposed to various scientific discoveries and to give those who are so opposed to such discoveries some personal insight.