Sentences with phrase «what objectivism»
Please look into what objectivism is and what Ayn Rand stood for before you respond.
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The outlines of what Rorty calls foundationalism and what Palmer calls objectivism were developed during the seventeenth century by thinkers such as Descartes, Hobbes, and Locke.
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.
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.
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.»
The editor of Reason magazine (a libertarian glossy monthly with obvious ties to Objectivism) didn't know what to make of it — as it would seem to be the attempt to wed Libertarianism to some form of theocratic government.
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.
But far too often this isn't what «Objectivists» «learn» from Objectivism.