Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature
Showing posts with label Essentialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Essentialism. Show all posts
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Ayn Rand & Epistemology 36

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Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy 9: Thinking in Essentials Redux . Peikoff resumes his jihad against nominalism with the following bit of libelo...
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Thursday, October 06, 2011

Rand & Human Nature 9

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Denial of Jealousy. From a naturalist point of view, it is difficult to escape the view that man is a product of an evolutionary process, a...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Objectivism & Politics, Part 38

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Natural disasters and state assistance. Does the government have a role in helping people whose homes have been destroyed or severly damage...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008

The Cognitive Revolution & Objectivism, Part 11

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Conclusion. Having briefly run through some of the major challenges posed by the Cognitive Revolution to orthodox Objectivism, a recapitul...
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Monday, December 31, 2007

An Objectivist critique of Popper examined

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Nicholas Dykes' critique of Popper, linked by the poster Ian, while not as bad as most such Rand-inspired criticisms, does have its sha...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Aristotle's "Secret Revolt" Against Reason

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"...every discipline, as long as it used the Aristotelian method of definition, has remained arrested in a state of empty verbiage and ...
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