Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature
Saturday, April 28, 2007

Rand's Anti-Heroic Ethics

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ARCHN 's chapter on Rand's morality thoroughly explores its various fallacies, especially Nyquist's thoughtfully argued sub-chap...
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Monday, April 23, 2007

JARS: "Nyquist Contra Rand, Part II" by F. Seddon

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Those who wish to read Fred Seddon's reply to my response to his original review of my book are advised to locate a copy of the Fall 200...
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Saturday, April 14, 2007

JARS: "Rand and Empirical Responsibility"

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The following is my response to Fred Seddon's review of my book Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature . The point of this response was not merely...
Friday, April 06, 2007

JARS: "A Beauty Contest for Dichotomies: Browne's Terminological Revolutions"

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Roderick T. Long, responding to Gregory Browne's article "The 'Grotesque' Dichotomies Still Unbeautified," contributes...
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Friday, March 30, 2007

JARS: "The 'Grotesque' Dichotomies Still Unbeautified"

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Gregory Browne, in this essay, replies to criticism of his book Necessary Factual Truth , a work which attempts to combine Misesian aprioris...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

JARS: "Ayn Rand as Literary Mentor"

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Kirsti Minsaas provides a short review of Erika Holzer's Ayn Rand: My Fiction Writing Teacher . In the course of her review, Minsaas ind...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

JARS: "Putting Humans First?"

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David Graham and Nathan Nobis review Tibor Machan's treatise Putting Human's First: Why We Are Nature's Favorite , which is neo-...
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Friday, March 09, 2007

JARS: "Essays on Ayn Rand's Fiction"

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In this article, Susan L. Brown reviews two collections of essays from ARI, the first collecting essays about Rand's novel Anthem , the ...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Slow Posting Weeks, Upcoming Projects

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Just a note to say that my posting will be limited over the coming weeks due to work and travel commitments. Greg may post as the spirit mov...
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Friday, March 02, 2007

Rand's Morality: A Brief Autopsy 2 - addendum

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Before being interrupted by other pressing issues (JARS, etc.), I had been doing a short series of posts on Rand's morality. Originally,...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Understanding Objectivist Jargon Pt 8: "Concepts"

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"Concepts" = condensations of human knowledge, which also simultaneously transcend all human knowledge. They can never be overthr...
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ARCHN Quotes of the Week 25/2/07

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Double helping this week: "Rand's account of the rise of statism in America indicates that she knew virtually nothing about how pol...
Friday, February 23, 2007

Basic Fallacies of Objectivist Epistemology: The Mathematical Comparison

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Rand's "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" is easily the worst thing she ever wrote. Rambling despite its brevity, almo...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Understanding Objectivist Jargon Pt 7: "Contextual Absolute"

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"Contextual absolute" = Oxymoron. Not in fact an 'absolute' at all. If you consider this sort of thing an epochal contrib...
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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Understanding Objectivist Jargon Pt 6: "A is A"

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"A is A" = i) Shorthand for the Law of Identity ii) Buzzphrase, the mere invocation of which is believed to validate any argument...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

JARS: Degutis' "Deconstructing Postmodern Xenophelia"

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The title of Degutis' essay is a mouthful, to be sure, but it is an excellent piece -- quite the best in the entire issue Fall 2006 issu...
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Heal Thyself!

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Amusingly in light of the embarrassing standards of debate Objectivists regularly demonstrate here, Greg Perkins over at Noodlefood enlighte...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Anti-ARCHN Quote of the Week 14/2/07

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"It's not that I can't respond to your challenge to show the fallacy in your book, it's that I decline to respond." - ...
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ARCHN Quote of the Week 13/2/07

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"For Objectivists, the term reason is a sort of mystical entity whose purpose is to assure them that they are right." - Greg Nyqu...
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Monday, February 12, 2007

Hoisted from Comments: Nyquist Replies to a Critic

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...even though that critic, one Mr John Donohue, has point-blank refused to read "Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature"! Only in Objectiv...
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