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The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff. Our reading this week was: Ch. 8 – The initiation of physical force as evil 312-324 Ch. 9 – Happiness (Introduction) 325 Ch. 9 – Virtue as practical 326-329 “So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate… no man may start …
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The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff. Our reading this week was: Ch. 8 – Pride as moral ambitiousness 303-309 Ch. 8 – The initiation of physical force as evil 310-312 Is pride a good thing? Yes and no. Today we are looking at Ayn Rand’s understanding of pride as a virtue. W…
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The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff. Our reading this week was: Justice as rationality in the evaluation of men (276-291) Productiveness as the adjustment of nature to man (292-303) In Proverbs 25:2 we read: “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings…
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The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff. Our reading this week was: Integrity as loyalty to rational principles (259-266) Honesty as rejection of unreality (267-276) Ayn Rand understood integrity as meaning loyalty to rational principles. And she understood honesty as the reje…
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The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff. Our reading this week was: -Values as objective 244-249 (cont.) -Virtue (Introduction) 250 -Independence as a primary orientation to reality, not to other men 251-259 “There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has …
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The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff. Our reading in “Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand” this week was: -The individual as the proper beneficiary of his own moral action 229-240 -Values as objective 241-244 We have come to the key idea in Ayn Rand’s ethics: Rational E…
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The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff. Our reading in “Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand” this week was: Ch. 7 – Man’s life as the standard of moral value 213-219 Ch. 7 – Rationality as the primary virtue 220-229 It is necessary to return to a robust Christianity—an ac…
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The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff. Our reading this week was: Ch. 7 – The Good (Introduction) 206 Ch. 7 – Life as the essential root of value 207-213 This week’s reading introduces the concept of “value”—which Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff correctly ground in our nature a…
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The Objectivism Book Study met through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff. Our reading this week was: Ch. 6 – Reason as an attribute of the individual 198 to 205 We begin our discussion this week by looking at a thread Jacob Brunton posted to Twitter: “Conservatives will rightly scoff at the Communist notion o…
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The Objectivism Book Study is meeting through 2022 to study Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Peikoff. Welcome to the Objectivism Book Study (Week 18) — Nature of Man. Our reading this week was: Ch. 6 – Man (Introduction) 187-188 Ch. 6 – Living organisms as goal-directed and conditional 189-193 Ch. 6 – Reason as man’s basic means …
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