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Values and Morals

Toward a Secular Moral Landscape

After thousands of years of formal philosophizing and probably a hundred thousand of contemplation around prehistoric camp fires, is there..

Apr 26, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual

April/May 2005 -- An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in

Mar 29, 2011
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Michael Shaw and Edward Hudgins
10
Republican Statists: Back to the Future?

Fall 2006 -- As I was completing work today on this issue of the magazine, I received an e-mail announcing publication of Ryan Sager’s new

Mar 25, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
7 Mins
Book Review: Toward Heroic Capitalism

In 1859, the first treatise on “best practices” appeared: Self-Help, With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance, by Samuel

Mar 25, 2011
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Robert L. Bradley, Jr
5 Mins
The Self-Help Guide to Living in a Free Society

Too many Americans are losing the ability to take care of themselves and are instead looking to the government to run their lives for them..

Mar 16, 2011
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Gen LaGreca
7 Mins
Feminism and the Future

Winter 2010 -- Imagine a rich, new media landscape—one that extols complex heroines whose lives expand a young women's sense of the many...

Feb 8, 2011
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10 Mins
Liberalism vs. Objectivism

Ayn Rand criticized both the “liberal” Left and the “conservative” Right poles of American politics. She identified both major political

Jan 26, 2011
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5 Mins
How Objectivists Respond to Religionists

Objectivists are advocates of reason, so we first try to reason with people who believe in ideas supported only by faith...

Jan 26, 2011
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2 Mins
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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3 Mins
Charity for 2004 Tsunami Victims

Ayn Rand held that charity is not a major virtue. Objectivism holds that how you spend your money is your business. Your ultimate moral aim

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins
Collectivism, Freedom, and Happiness

Happiness is a complex emotion that proceeds from living one’s life with success and intensity. To achieve it, one must correctly identify

Jan 25, 2011
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Andrew Bissell
2 Mins
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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8 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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Malini Kochhar
2 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
How Racist Are We?

I’m a bit of a racist. I’ll bet you are one, too.

Dec 19, 2010
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8 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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Will Wilkinson
10 Mins
Teaching Virtue in a Postmodern World

James Davison Hunter, a professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of Virginia and director of the Institute for

Oct 20, 2010
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10 Mins
Postmodern Medicine

Postmodernism is the most recent incarnation and the now-reigning cult of the "anti-Enlightenment," having arisen largely from the ravings

Oct 19, 2010
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James Lee Brooks
7 Mins
Position Statement on Terrorists Attacks

November 2001 -- The Assault on Civilization , posted October 12, 2001. Published in the November 2001 Navigator . The position of The

Oct 14, 2010
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3 Mins
Suicide

Objectivism does not hold that happiness is the ultimate goal. It holds that happiness is the ultimate purpose in life.This is an important

Sep 30, 2010
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3 Mins

We promote open Objectivism: the philosophy of reason, achievement, individualism, and freedom.