Objectivism

Ayn Rand, “What is Capitalism?” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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This week in the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism we consider Ayn Rand´s controversial “What is Capitalism?” In this 1965 essay, first published in The Objectivist Newsletter and later in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Rand presents her philosophical and especially moral argument for capitalism. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/capitalism. Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Socialism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and […]

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Ten topics in applied Objectivism — interviewed by Mark Michael Lewis [Transcript]

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Interviewer Mark Michael Lewis and I had an extended conversation about philosophy and its applications to education, business ethics, postmodernism, and entrepreneurship. A video of this interview is available at YouTube. Here is the transcript: Mark Lewis: Welcome to a new edition of Becoming an Ayn Rand Hero, where we use the ideas of Ayn Rand

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Audiobook: *Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics* published

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I’m happy to announce a new audio edition of my “Ayn Rand and Business Ethics” has been published at Audible. Thanks to the team at The Atlas Society for producing it. The essay was originally published in The Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy and has since been translated into Korean, German, Serbo-Croatian, and

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Ayn Rand and Business Ethics — new booklet edition

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I’m happy to announce a new edition of my “Ayn Rand and Business Ethics” has been published. Thanks to the team at The Atlas Society for producing it. The essay was originally published in The Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy and has since been translated into Korean, German, Serbo-Croatian, and Portuguese. Abstract: Most

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Ten topics in applied Objectivism — interviewed by Mark Michael Lewis

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Interviewer Mark Michael Lewis and I had an extended conversation about philosophy and its applications to education, business ethics, postmodernism, and entrepreneurship. The ten topics: 1. How I first read Rand and Mises [1:44 minutes] 2. Why one should always take arguments at their best [10:15] 3. Why many philosophers are politically left [16:00] 4.

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Tyler Ashby discussion: Pomo, Perception, and Reason

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Our discussion is embedded below or at YouTube. Topics discussed: 1:00: The various uses of “postmodern” 3:30: The epistemology of reason in early modern philosophy 4:30: Pomo as a skepticism about reason by mid-1900s 5:00: Individualism in early modern philosophy 7:00: Pomo as a reaction to individualism 7:30: Social-psychological-linguistic determinisms of mid-1900s 10:10: Perception and

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Objectivism is not a straitjacket — graphic

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The indefatiguable Matheus Pacini designed this graphic meme. Here’s his group’s Facebook page. More of my posts on Objectivism. [About the original spelling: Fortunately, Merriam-Webster has “straitjacket, noun \ˈstrāt-ˌja-kət\ variants: or less commonly straightjacket.”] “Objectivism is a discipline—not a straitjacket. It is a base camp for high mountain expeditions—not a hillock from which to look

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Review of Gotthelf and Lennox forthcoming

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I have a review forthcoming in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews of the impressive new volume by Allan Gotthelf and James G. Lennox. Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge: Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology was published in 2013 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Gotthelf and Lennox both edited the volume and provided contributions of their own.

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