Sentences with phrase «of objectivism»

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

I noted earlier the ironic and paradoxical fact that the violent trajectory of objectivism was impelled in part by the desire for civil peace.

That said, it's not a huge surprise that Musk is a fan: The game is an Ayn Rand - inspired exploration of objectivism, capitalism, and power.

Indeed, as noted earlier, they both incorporate some elements of objectivism into their own prescriptions.

But another strain of pragmatism — its most original strain and one that is still discernible in Rorty — is very congenial to Palmer's own critique of objectivism.

But by ignoring or at least underestimating the extent to which objectivism's vices are precisely the defects of its virtues, both Rorty and Palmer are more sanguine than the historical record warrants in believing that one can persuasively disentangle the sinister strands of objectivism from its more humane strands within the academic conscience of the West.

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.

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.

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

She understood humanity enough that, while she advocated her idiotic and wrongheaded sense of aesthetics to groups of intellectuals, and while she did seek approval from those same groups and hoped to change a few minds, she did not care (nor did she ever expect) the rest of us lowlifes to ever pick up the banner of Objectivism and run with it.

At the very moment at the end of the nineteenth century that the universities were consolidating the triumph of objectivism, many of the religious were claiming that religion meant dogmatism based upon a peculiar reading of the Scriptures (Genesis as a geology text.

Hobbes and Descartes manifested this pacific motive most vividly of all the seventeenth - century advocates of objectivism or foundationalism.

There is, however, another and better reason why Palmer ignored James and other late - nineteenth - century critics of objectivism: he did not set out to write a piece of intellectual history.

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.

Though a complete historical explanation of the ascendancy of objectivism or foundationalism would require an analysis of all of these conditions, only one of them» the political factor» is crucially relevant to my present purpose.

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.

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

Throughout this challenge I tried to maintain a certain level of objectivism that would allow me to better evaluate my choices.

The subtext is, I suppose, that her philosophy of Objectivism is hardly worth serious attention.

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.»

Look to BioShock «s (2007) exploration of Objectivism, the Determinism of The Stanley Parable (2013), and The Talos Principle (2015) with its toying of Functionalism and Behaviorism (and many other philosophies).

Critics say Rand's characters were stilted mouthpieces for her philosophy of Objectivism, which insists that individuals should be driven by «rational self - interest.»

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.

Similarly to games like Bioshock, Evan wants you to soak in the atmosphere, pick up audiologs, and think about the philosophies of Objectivism.