I think we need an "Objectivist Answers" tab. What say you?
Posted by Zero 8 years, 2 months ago to Ask the Gulch
We need a place where people can ask questions about Objectivism and get an Objectivist answer - not a robust discussion of every fool's opinion.
I'm not asking for a place where only a few are qualified to answer.
I'm thinking more of a place that is actively moderated - by a few or many - for Objectivist accuracy.
It doesn't have to be the whole site - just one tab.
What say you, Kindred Spirits?
I'm not asking for a place where only a few are qualified to answer.
I'm thinking more of a place that is actively moderated - by a few or many - for Objectivist accuracy.
It doesn't have to be the whole site - just one tab.
What say you, Kindred Spirits?
Of the active writers here, ewv strikes me as speaking most in the voice of Objectivism. While dhalling certainly has a good grasp of the body of works, he writes in a different voice, and has his own focus. I have been with this for 50 years. I took the Basic Principles class. My books are annotated from repeated readings. However, I assure you that if I offered myself as an expert, I would get much argument from many people.
Perhaps you should just ask your question and see who quotes canon. We have an "Ask the Gulch" category, and another for Philosophy. The ball is in your court. (Is tennis a rational sport?)
What are the three laws of Objectivism?
No multiple guess....essay style.
Have you read the basic works:
1- We the Living
2- Anthem
3- The Fountainhead
4- Atlas Shrugged
5- For the New Intellectual
6- Virtue of Selfishness
7- Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal
8- The Romantic Manifesto
For the New Intellectual is probably the best bridge between the fiction and non-fiction because it consists largely of the soliloquies from the novels.
In all over 50 books by and about Objectivism have been published.
http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/20...
You are not going to get it all in a few Q&As. It is, however, a hierarchy of knowledge and the basic principles are fairly easy to access, again, from the basic eight books.
If you want a catechism, you are going to be disappointed. While most of Objectivism is unarguable (once it is established as fact and value), it remains that any philosophy is about your life and you are going to have to decide. Right now, at the Ayn Rand Institute, you can listen to a podcast and read an article in which Leonard Peikoff and Yaron Brook disagree on immigration.
Note, however, that they do not disagree about metaphysics.
The works of Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, David Kelley, and others who really are experts are easy to find. Essential truths that Ayn Rand herself announced and discussed are online. Not everything she said was Absolute Truth. (A woman can want to be President of the United States and wear a midi-skirt.), But you have to start with her original works and the acceptable canon of those who truly followed her line of reasoning.
The Excellent Foundation.
You know I'll be copy-pasting that list.
But what of the point - about having a place on the Gulch where someone can expect to get a bonafide answer.
The search for objective truth is arduous and that alone limits the number willing to accept the quest.