Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The Cognitive Revolution & Objectivism, Part 1

›
Starting in the 1950s, the sciences of mind, brain, genes, and evolution began forming a new understanding of human nature, based on an ever...
17 comments:
Monday, October 29, 2007

The Passion of "Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature"'s Critics

›
Discovered dissing "Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature" over at at Richard Dawkins' site (registration required), James Valliant, a...
8 comments:

Rand on Compromise

›
Special guest poster Neil Parille from Objectiblog takes at look at the difficulties of Rand's view of compromise: Ayn Rand is often a...
7 comments:
Friday, October 26, 2007

Saturday Nite Whim-Worshipping

›
Contra Rand, there are some times when you've got to let your whims rule. For no other conscious purpose other than a joyful racket unt...
1 comment:
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Naturalist Theory of Emotions

›
A naturalist view of emotions is one that accords with the best scientific evidence and harmonizes with the view that human beings are larg...
11 comments:
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Dear Dr Leonard

›
Dr Leonard Peikoff now personally answers your philosophical questions via podcast. Regular ARCHNblog readers who may be interested in toss...
41 comments:
Friday, October 19, 2007

Rand's Theory of Emotions Examined

›
The most critical part of Rand's view of man is her theory of emotion. Upon its validity rests not merely her vision of the "ideal...
16 comments:
Thursday, October 18, 2007

That Winston Tunnel Scene in Full

›
As part of our "Atlas Shrugged" 50th Anniversary discussions, we present one of the most controversial passages from Ayn Rand'...
66 comments:

"From Romantic Fallacy to Holocaustic Imagination"

›
As the ARCHNblog's "Atlas Shrugged" 50th Anniversary critique-athon continues, we link to a perceptive essay by Thomas F. Ber...
Friday, October 12, 2007

Honesty in Objectivism

›
Ayn Rand, "For The New Intellectual: : "Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, th...
22 comments:
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

"To a gas chamber - go!"

›
With the 50th anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged well upon us, several internet postings of the adulatory sycophantic fustian...
28 comments:

Atlas Debunked

›
As "Atlas Shrugged"'s 50th rolls on, no doubt we will hear once again the venerable tale of how it was found by the Library of...
10 comments:

Alas, "Atlas"

›
Former ARI writer Robert Tracinski plugs "Atlas Shrugged"'s 50th over at Fox News, decrying the somewhat unsympathetic reacti...
5 comments:
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Understanding Objectivist Jargon Pt 13: "Sacrifice"

›
"Sacrifice" = giving up a greater value for a lesser value. As someone once remarked about Gertrude Stein, Ayn Rand often does not...
27 comments:

Ayn Rand Quote of the Week - 4/10/07

›
Ayn Rand on the American Indian: "They didn’t have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights whi...
31 comments:
Monday, October 01, 2007

›
Anon: "As for your point about the rationalization of philosophic speculation, I don't know where it's coming from. Objectivism...
4 comments:
Friday, September 28, 2007

The Failure of the Hierarchy to Justify Abstract Reasoning

›
In Anon's most recent reply, he focuses largely on the issue of explaining why "the concepts we need to learn first are just the on...
8 comments:
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Response to "Anonymous" about Randian Hierarchy of Knowledge

›
An anonymous poster has provided to reply to my previous attack on the Objectivist hiearchy of knowledge, as advanced by Van Damme in her p...
1 comment:
Saturday, September 22, 2007

Van Damme's "The False Promise of Classical Education"

›
The Objectivist theory of education, as I have noted before, is one of the least objectionable theories in all of Randian inspired philosoph...
4 comments:
Friday, September 21, 2007

Hoisted from Comments: Don't Try This At Home!

›
In comments in one of our "Understanding Objectivist Jargon" entries on the so-called "Conceptual Common Denominator" , ...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.