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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 14

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Evidence for religion. A widespread prejudice among the anti-religious is that no evidence exists for religious phenomena as miracles, God,...
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Friday, June 27, 2008

The Determinists Strike Again

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The Wall St Journal carries the intriguing story of neurological research that suggests many of our decisions are made before our conscious...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Web Weirdness

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The internets are a strange place. I give you the site of one Dave Michael Linehan, allegedly associated with the University of Tennessee, ...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

"Atlas Shrugged" Movie Denounced, Even Before It's Made

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Despite some unconvincing attempts at hype , the "Atlas Shrugged" movie is - somewhat predictably - still faltering at the develop...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 13

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Deism. In December of 2004, Anthony Flew, who for most of his career had championed atheism, announced his "conversion" to theism...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Ayn Rand And The World She Made

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Anne Heller's much awaited new biography is scheduled for February 09. For a flavour of Heller's style, which appears to be a refres...
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Sunday, June 08, 2008

Old News

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It's pretty old news now that the grandioise, heavily Objectivist-influenced education project Founders College has gone belly up . But...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 12

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Agnosticism. Peikoff has this to say of agnosticism: [There is] a widespread approach to ideas which Objectivism repudiates altogether: ag...
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Monday, June 02, 2008

Philosophy and Conduct

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Does belief in the relativity of truth lead to dishonesty? A fascinating article in the San Francisco Examiner looks into the differences ...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 11

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Peikoff’s arguments against God. Peikoff, in his book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand , provides several arguments against the exis...
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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 10

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Religion and freedom. Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” argues that religion is logically incompatible with freedom and in...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 9

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Aquinas and Rand. Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” credits Thomas Aquinas, the great philosopher of Catholicism, for lead...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 8

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Did Christianity cause the Dark Ages? Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” more or less claims that Christianity was responsi...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 7

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Ideas and doctrine as scapegoat. To what extent are ideas, doctrines, beliefs responsible for conduct? To what extent is any doctrine respo...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 6

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Religion as a source of comfort. The Australian philosopher David Stove, despite regarding religion as little more than a psychological “de...
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 5

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Force and Faith. As is well known among her admirers, Rand saw s linkage between force and faith. “These,” she insisted, “are corollaries: ...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Light Posting Months

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I won't be posting much for a while as I'm busy launching a new business, among other things. Greg will be posting as the spirit mov...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 4

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The Role of Myth. In my last post, I briefly analyzed some of the issues dealing with trying to determine how religious beliefs affect indi...
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Friday, April 18, 2008

Objectivism & Religion, Part 3

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“One of the greatest distortions [of social analysis] views [historical phenomenon] as the consequences of certain logical interpretations o...
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