361 Articles tagged with: Objectivism

• Southern Exposure: “Branden Saved Years of My Life”

  Section II features autobiographical reflections on Branden by his friends and associates Roger E. Bissell, Mimi Reisel Gladstein, Tal Ben-Shahar, Deepak Sethi, and Michael E. Southern. Limited space for review necessitates that I roll my thoughts… Read Article

• Pope Francis Attacks Objectivism in All but Name

  Ayn Rand delved into some of Objectivism’s most fundamental ideas—and their most poignant personal implications—in the essay she devoted to the 1967 encyclical by Pope Paul VI, Populorum Progressio (“on the development of peoples.”)

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• Nathaniel Branden, In His Own Words

  The inclusion of Branden’s lecture and question-answer session in this collection gives him a voice in his own commemoration.  Published here for the first time, and transcribed by Roger Bissell, the lecture was given to the California Institut… Read Article

• Henryk Sienkiewicz and the Climax of Romanticism

  There was a time, when Ayn Rand’s new essays came out monthly and, as often as not, mentioned or enthusiastically recommended some writer or specific book, that her readers immediately tracked down every work by that writer. Mickey Spillane, Don… Read Article

• The Legacy of Nathaniel Branden

  The idea for a symposium on the life and thought of Nathaniel Branden came in 2012, two years before Branden’s death. Branden himself knew about and approved of the symposium but never saw it completed before he passed away.

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• 5 reasons to attend the Atlas Summit

  I’m a great fan of the Atlas Summit and hope you’ll attend! You might think that, because I work for the Atlas Society, I’m obliged to recommend our annual Summit. But it’s the other way around. Because I went to annual Summits, I chose to… Read Article

• RIP, Tibor Machan

  Late yesterday I received a note from Tibor’s daughter that he had passed away. I knew that his health was not good, but her news was a blow.

  I met Tibor sometime in the 1970s, when we were young firebrands in the Objectivist-libertarian… Read Article

• Research workshop discusses emotions in personal decision-making

  The Atlas Society’s Research Workshop met online Thursday, November 19, to discuss the role of emotions in making personal decisions. 

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• Objectivism in Substance Abuse Treatment

  At the heart of Objectivism is the claim that this philosophy is more than a theory. This philosophy is a way of life—a successful life. In his current job, Nathaniel Branch has been applying the principles of Objectivism successfully in the sub… Read Article

• Research Workshop discusses "Virtues in Action" and "Virtues for Life" virtue lists

  The Atlas Society's Research Workshop met online on Thursday, October 22, for a discussion of virtues derived from the positive psychology movement.

  Ayn Rand listed seven main virtues in “Galt’s Speech” and in “The Objectivist Ethi… Read Article

• Objectivism Lost in Translation

  Ayn Rand had strong views on the meaning of certain words: “selfishness,” “altruism,” “intrinsic,” and so on. So when Objectivists read non-Objectivists, they often assume that the latter are using these words as Rand did and interpret… Read Article

• Interpreting the Constitution

  How does one determine the meaning of a 200+ year-old document? Does it mean what it was understood to mean in the 18th century? Or what it is understood to mean today? Or what the morally best reading would be?

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• Research workshop on emergence

  The Atlas Society's Research Workshop in Objectivist Philosophy met on Wednesday, September 23, to discuss the debate between reductionist and emergentist views of causality.

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• Intermediate course in Objectivist Ethics

  This 5-part course in the Objectivist ethics was filmed this summer, in Nashua, New Hampshire, as part of our annual Atlas Summit. 

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• Ethics in Society - Lecture 4 (Intermediate Course in Objectivism)

  While Objectivism holds that you’d need ethics even living alone, interacting with other people raises distinctive ethical questions and requires principles designed for the purpose. This session discusses the trader principle and its applicatio… Read Article

• The 25th Anniversary of The Atlas Society

  2015 marks 25 years since David Kelley founded the Institute for Objectivist Studies (now, The Atlas Society) with a call for a new, more open Objectivist movement founded on independent thought and objectivity.

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• Ethics for the Individual: Lecture 3 (Intermediate Course in Objectivist Ethics)

  Objectivism holds that each person needs ethics regardless of his or her social situation. Indeed, a Robinson Crusoe needs ethics as much as anyone. This session discusses the core content of ethics for the individual as such, including principl… Read Article

• Good Judgment

  Judgment is the cognitive task of taking account of a wide range of considerations, giving each its proper weight, separating what is essential from what is not, and arriving at a sound conclusion or decision.

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• Selfishness: What and Why

  This session explains the radical difference between Ayn Rand’s conception of selfishness and the conventional sense of that term.

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• The Nature of Ethics

  Objectivism conceives of ethics as a practical code to guide our actions. Is this what ethics is?

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