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	Objectivist philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Objectivist theory of art flows fairly directly from its epistemology, by way of "psycho-epistemology" (Objectivism's term for the study of human cognition as it involves interactions between the conscious and the subconscious mind).
		Objectivists often respond to this by saying either that a) the claims are exaggerated, b) the cult-like practices were (unfortunately) irrational but do not disprove the philosophy, or c) such statements are justified because one's confidence in Rand is (or should be) based on reason and one's own individual, reality-oriented values.
		The cult accusation is probably the most common attack on Rand and her philosophy, somewhat edging out dismissals of her as an 'intellectual light-weight' (based on her limited academic qualification in philosophy and the claim that most of her followers didn't have an interest in, or knowledge of, philosophy until reading her work).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Objectivist_philosophy (4695 words)

	Objectivist philosophy at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She described Objectivism as a philosophy for living on earth -- by which she meant that it was a philosophy grounded in reality with the purpose of enabling its adherents to better deal with the natural world.
		On the Objectivist view, sensory perception is axiomatically "valid", on the grounds that it is allegedly self-contradictory to deny the efficacy of the senses as sources of genuine knowledge.
		A major concern of the Objectivist epistemology is the identification and avoidance of such "anti-concepts", which are regarded as mental monstrosities that do not succeed in referring to any external reality whatsoever (and often are the results of evasion).
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Objectivist_philosophy.html (4038 words)

	What is Objectivism?
		Ayn Rand was as much an advocate of philosophy in general as she was of Objectivism in particular.
		The politics of Objectivism logically flows from and is justified by Objectivist ethics; Objectivist ethics logically flows from and is justified by Objectivist epistemology; Objectivist epistemology logically flows from and is justified by Objectivist metaphysics.
		Objectivist esthetics does not value as art portrayals of the world as it could not be: objectivism is grounded in reality, not in wishful thinking.
	www.mondopolitico.com /ideologies/atlantis/whatisobjectivism.htm (3244 words)

	Objectivist Philosophy Palaver @ GreatArtworks.com (Great Artworks) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Since human beings must make choices in order to survive as human beings, the basic requirement of a human life is the freedom to make, and act on, one's own independent rational judgment, according to one's self-interest.
		A century after her birth and more than a decade after her death, Rand remains one of the best-selling and most widely influential figures in American thought and culture" in general and in libertarianism in particular.
		It is a long-standing question of Kant scholarship whether this interpretation is correct; in the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant claimed that his transcendental idealism was different from empirical idealism.
	www.greatartworks.com /encyclopedia/Objectivist_philosophy (3442 words)

	BC 189 What Is Objectivism? - Sierra Times.com
		Writer William Thomas describes philosophy this way in his article, What is Philosophy?: "A philosophy is a comprehensive system of ideas about human nature and the nature of the reality we live i n.
		Objectivism is a philosophy that rejects the subjectivist theory that "there are no absolutes," a concept that was created by the subjectivists to allow them to escape responsibility for their actions.
		There are many subtleties in the Objectivist philosophy that Objectivist scholars argue endlessly with their detractors (which is why I will never be an Objectivist philosopher, but always a student of Objectivist philosophy), but this is the essence of it.
	www.sierratimes.com /03/11/17/ar_raythomas.htm (1414 words)

	Objectivist philosophy
		Objectivism (capitalized) is the name chosen by Ayn Rand for her philosophy.
		Many forms of humanist philosophy, and most of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, hold this belief to be immoral.
		They hold that the reasoning is specious and flawed, and that Rand has not proven that her philosophy is the only moral philosophy one can have.
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		An Objectivist is an individual who takes Ayn Rand's philosophy seriously and practices it to the extent of his knowledge in accordance with his rational values.
		This has the corollary of taking the terminology and methodology of Ayn Rand's philosophy as the standard in the resolution of basic issues of life including one's work and relationships all of which are the concern of philosophy.
		Other Objectivist works are referred to in the "Reading List on Objectivism." This is combines an edited version of the bibliography distributed by Thomas Gramstad from an anonymous source and a bibliography recently posted on OSG by Jerry Nilson (12/11/93).
	www.textfiles.com /internet/FAQ/faqaynr.txt (4443 words)

	Mathematics, Logic, Set Theory, and Objectivism - THE FORUM for Ayn Rand Fans
		Just as Objectivists agree on the philosophic principles that apply when voting for President but disagree when it comes to the best application of those principles during an election, Objectivists can disagree about particular scientific or mathematical theories that claim to be consistent with Objectivism.
		However, I have heard that there are Objectivists (Pat Corvini was mentioned in another thread, though I could be mistaken in my impression that her views on the subject are related to Objectivism) who apply Objectivist philosophy to the subjects of mathematics and the philosophy of mathematics.
		And the intuitionist's rejection of the law of excluded middle might not conflict with Objectivist commitment to the law, since an Objectivist might view the law as not applicable to certain kinds of statements that might be considered in the same terms as what Objectivists call 'the arbitrary'.
	forums.4aynrandfans.com /index.php?showtopic=1678 (5349 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Debate Proved Objectivist Philosophy Is Morally Irrelevant
		On the 12th of December, the Harvard Objectivist Club held a debate between the esteemed Professor Randall Kennedy of the Harvard Law School and Professor Harry Binswanger of the Objectivist Graduate Center.
		The course of the debate clearly represented the Objectivist philosophy as morally irrelevant and its adherents, who claim to embrace autonomy, as merely mindless automatons.
		For example, a person is to be left to die because one was born impoverished, and thus can contribute nothing to society, despite the fact that they had no control over the circumstances of their birth.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=92063 (417 words)

	Amazon.com: Philosophy : Who Needs It: Books: Ayn Rand,Leonard Peikoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The distinction between philosophy and chess is that 'check-mate', in philosophy, is always open to, is indeed the specific matter of the dispute.
		Philosophy cannot be of use to anybody, because it is still trying to decide this question, 'What is the use?' The reason it is possible to live without philosophy is that life decides this question for us.
		Philosophy is a suspension of life and death, because we still have to decide what these are, and we cannot know the one whereas the other is an abstraction.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451138937?v=glance (2340 words)

	Objectivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ayn Rand Institute, a think-tank in Irvine, California promoting this philosophy.
		Neo-Objectivism a large family of philosophical viewpoints and cultural values claiming to be descended from objectivist philosophy.
		The Objectivist Center a think tank in Washington, D.C. The group of writers known as the Objectivist poets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Objectivism (144 words)

	Philosophy refdesk.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - a free resource to all those interested in the philosophy of mind.
		Erratic Impact -- Philosophy Research Base - Site is categorized by history, subject and author, is a meta-index featuring thousands of annotated links, text resources and community services for students and teachers conducting research in the field of philosophy.
		Thinking's Legacy and the Evolution of Experience - a history of 19th and 20th century philosophy, and means to be an advanced introduction to thinking's contemporary developments.
	www.refdesk.com /philos.html (658 words)

	Who Are The True Objectivists? - Objectivism Online Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In my understanding, an Objectivist is a person who understands and agrees with the entire philosophy of Objectivism (the exact principles of which are dervied from the philosophical writings of Rand and those who now have the legal right to speak for her, such as Peikoff.)
		Being an objectivist and opposed to anarchism is a contradiction.
		I don't know why so many "objectivists" are big fans of organized religion, and want to have a pope (Piekoff) who decress who is objectivist and who isnt, and support excommunications (like that of Kelly for the "sin" of telling people about objectivism).
	forum.objectivismonline.net /index.php?showtopic=4752 (3981 words)

	Is There an Objectivist Sense of Life?
		I don't think there is such a thing as an Objectivist sense of life.
		There is an Objectivist philosophy, and Ayn Rand had her own sense of life, but sense of life is too individualized, too personal, for there to be an Objectivist sense of life.
		I think in general that Objectivists have certain ethical traits in common -- they tend to be honest and rational and so on.
	www.saint-andre.com /journal/1996-04-26.html (647 words)

	Criticisms of Objectivism
		Objectivist Epistemology: Strengths and Weaknesses by Robert Bass -- Bass lists a few areas of epistemology where he believes Objectivism is right, and several where he believes it is weak or wrong.
		Ku claims that prior to his work there was "no systematic critique of her ethics written with Objectivists in mind." He covers such issues as Rand's theory of life as the ultimate value and her claim that there are no conflicts in men's interests.
		The philosophy of Ayn Rand, a twentieth-century novelist and philosopher, is known as Objectivism.
	www.noblesoul.com /orc/critics (2896 words)

	Why I'm not an objectivist
		But when it comes to philosophy, people are disturbingly reluctant to reconsider their own arguments - once a person sets down a path of reasoning, he is inclined to accept all of its logical implications, however absurd.
		I do not understand how Objectivists are able to maintain that there are no conflicts of interest in a rational society, but they seem to regard it as a fundamental point in their ethics.
		However, this is probably the sketchiest part of the Objectivist philosophy, at least among issues that are of central importance.
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	Objectivist philosophy - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Though they share many of the same political goals, Objectivists see some libertarians as plagiarists of their ideas "with the teeth pulled out of them,"[4] whereas some libertarians see Objectivists as dogmatic, unrealistic, and uncompromising.
		Objectivists equate this not with rational criticism, but with Objectivism's radical difference with contemporary philosophy.
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	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Objectivist_philosophy (4472 words)

	FAQ: Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism Archive-name: objectivism/faq Last-modified: 199
		Objectivism is a philosophy that holds the unit of sovereignty in human society to be the individual.
		An Objectivist takes Ayn Rand's philosophy seriously and practices it to the extent of his knowledge in the pursuit of his rationally chosen values.
		The mark of an Objectivist according to Dr. Leonard Peikoff in "Fact and Value" (TIA, May 1989) is one's approach to values.
	www.skepticfiles.org /skep2/aynrandf.htm (4643 words)

	AYN RAND'S OBJECTIVIST PHILOSOPHY NEGATES RACISM
		Racism claims that the content of a man's mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its CONTENT) is inherited; that a man's convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control.
		This is the caveman's version of the doctrine of innate ideas--or of inherited knowledge--which has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science.
		There is only one antidote to racism: the philosophy of individualism and its politico-economic corollary, laissez faire capitalism.
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	Objectivist philosophy Objectivist philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She characterized it as a philosophy "for living on earth"; that is, grounded in objective reality and aiming to facilitate moral interaction among humans, as well as between humans and the natural world.
		Romanticism, which on its Objectivist definition is a category of art treating the existence of human volition as true and important.
		Epistemology (in philosophy or psychology) that virtually all knowledge is the result of our experiences.
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	WMOD: 6/00 Meeting - Bert Ely: Governance within a Libertarian/Objectivist Society
		Washington Metro Objectivism Discussion (WMOD) Wednesday, June 21, 2000 "Governance and the State within a Libertarian/Objectivist Society" By Bert Ely Key to libertarian and Objectivist philosophy is a strong distrust of, if not outright hostility towards the state, or government.
		Yet libertarian and Objectivist philosophy is premised in part on the existence of property rights and the right to enter freely into contracts.
		Hence, in order to advance the development of a libertarian/Objectivist philosophy, it is essential to differentiate societal governance from the concept of the state as an entity within society pursuing its own self-interest.
	www.infiltec.com /wmod600.htm (1034 words)

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