Objectivism

John Galt vs. Fred Thompson

December 14, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
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Rand on the Relationship between Values and Virtues

October 30, 2007 @ 12:43 pm

I have uploaded a brief essay giving my interpretation of the relationship between values and virtues in Rand’s though. It was written to fulfill the writing assignment of the TAS/TOC 2007 Grad Student Summer Seminar I attended in August. Enjoy.

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Ron Paul's son, Rand Paul, interviewed before debate.

June 30, 2007 @ 10:35 pm

Ron Paul’s son’s name is Rand. That’s interesting.

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Libertarian F&SF Author John C. Wright

March 10, 2007 @ 9:44 pm

There is a quasi-interview/article here at The Advocates for Self-Government website. See, also, Wright’s page on SFF.net. I have only read Wright’s Golden Age trilogy, not any of his other novels. I can say that I greatly enjoyed the trilogy. Not only is it good science fiction but it is explicitly libertarian science fiction. There [...]

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Ayn Rand Interviews on YouTube

March 10, 2007 @ 12:27 pm

Mike Wallace Interview (1959) Donahue Interview And there is some commentary over at the Mises Econ Blog.

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Objectivism and Austrian Economics

July 18, 2005 @ 11:01 pm

Today I left a comment over at SOLOHQ on Heidi Morris’s article “Reason and Reality: The Logical Compatibility of Austrian Economics and Objectivism,” disagreeing with what I take to be mistaken views of Austrian economics by a couple of the other commentors. The article is interesting, and admirable in its attempt to bridge the divide [...]

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(Mis)Interpreting Nietzsche?

July 10, 2005 @ 8:43 pm

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been reading Sciabarra’s Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical. While I agree with him much of the time and I’ve found his speculations about Nietzsche’s influence on Rand to be interesting and informative, I cannot (at least at the moment) completely agree with his interpretation of Nietzsche as [...]

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Against Idealism: Ayn Rand and Johannes Daubert vs. Husserl's Ideas I

June 29, 2005 @ 6:59 am

Last semester I took an independent study/readings course on formal ontology and phenomenology. I read some of the work of Edmund Husserl, Adolf Reinach, and Barry Smith. There is, I think, a lot to like about phenomenology, realist phenomenology at least. In attempting to clarify my own objections to Husserl’s transcendental turn, the notorious transcendental [...]

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