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Game Theory and Objectivism

As such, Nash's contributions to non-cooperative game theory were a major breakthrough in the formal analysis of strategic interaction...

Jan 25, 2011
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Government Financing in a Free Society

Objectivism recognizes the necessity of a rational governmental authority that performs the basic functions of maintaining law and order...

Jan 25, 2011
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ماليني كوشار
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Charity

Objectivism holds that there is nothing wrong with charity, so long as one is pursuing one's own values in providing it. As Ayn Rand said...

Jan 25, 2011
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Feminism and Objectivism

Objectivism is an individualist philosophy. It holds that each person is a rational animal and that all individuals....

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins
Determinism in The Fountainhead?

Ayn Rand wrote out the passages that Leonard Peikoff cites in The Fountainhead , Centennial Edition (728–732) in her journals from late...

Jan 25, 2011
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5 Mins
Externalities and the Free Rider Problem

According to L.H. Rockwell, Jr. (founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute) externalities can be subjective, as costs and....

Jan 25, 2011
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ماليني كوشار
3 Mins
Freedom of Speech

Objectivists absolutely hold that we have a right to freedom of speech. It is an aspect of our broader right to liberty: the right to take..

Jan 25, 2011
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ويليام توماس
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Government Jobs for Objectivists

Objectivism holds that each person's life is its own moral sanction, and that no one thrives in life except by living as a rational being...

Jan 25, 2011
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3 Mins
Agnosticism and the Unknown

I hope you have read D. Moskovitz's answer on agnosticism. If not, you can find it here .You are right: we will never be omniscient. And

Jan 23, 2011
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2 Mins
Animal Rights

Rights only apply to rational beings whose needs are best fulfilled by production and trade...

Jan 23, 2011
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3 Mins
Beauty and Moral Judgment

People sometimes speak of a beautiful soul or similarly abstract beautiful qualities, but for the moment let us confine ourselves to beauty

Jan 23, 2011
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5 Mins
Agnosticism and Proof

Consider what it would take to try to prove that there is no such thing as a supernatural realm. What evidence would you cite to prove that

Jan 23, 2011
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أندرو بيسيل
3 Mins
Benevolence and Self-Assertiveness

Benevolence and tolerance are considered part of the Objectivist view of ethics, even though they are not explicitly stated among the.....

Jan 23, 2011
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ماليني كوشار
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Abortion

In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court declared a constitutionally protected right to abortion. Far from resolving the debate that gave rise to it..

Jan 23, 2011
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Axioms and the A-Priori

I am not a Kantian, nor an expert on Kantianism. But the common understanding of "a-priori" is knowledge that can be established prior to...

Jan 23, 2011
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2 Mins
Capital Punishment

Ayn Rand argued that those who mete out death to others certainly deserve it back as a matter of justice (assuming that we are speaking of..

Jan 23, 2011
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2 Mins
Atheism--Pascal's Wager

Objectivism is an atheistic philosophy because there is neither a coherent concept of what God would be nor are any of the arguments offered

Jan 23, 2011
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2 Mins
Agnosticism and the Unknown: Round Two

You are right that Newton was not in a position to say in detail whether atoms or sub-atomic particles existed. We, like Newton, have plenty

Jan 23, 2011
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3 Mins
Judging Actions vs. Judging People

The distinction between judging actions as evil and judging people as evil is fully discussed in David Kelley's seminal essay Truth and.....

Jan 6, 2011
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3 Mins
What is Morality Good For?

In Viable Values, Tara Smith sets forth an exposition of Ayn Rand's metaethical theory and defends it against competing views regarding the

Oct 22, 2010
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ويل ويلكينسون
10 Mins

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