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“To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason - Purpose - Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge - Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve - Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is...

I find that a very powerful tool to get to the heart of any issue is to ask: What perceptually self-evident facts of reality give rise to the need for a certain concept or idea. So I'd like to ask everyone what facts of reality give rise to the need for morality. I use the word perceptually...

A thread to discuss the Wheel of Time series on Amazon. I have been a huge fan of books since 1993. I have them all on audio. Kate Reading and Micheal Cramer do a fantastic job of narration. I listen to the whole series at least once a year. In Fact I'm listening to the first book again...

Objectivity is both a metaphysical and an epistemological concept. In its metaphysical sense, it means that things exist and are what they are independent of anyone's conscious activity such as believing, knowing, wishing, imagining, demanding, asserting, etc. This is known as the primacy of...

Just curious what you all think of presuppositional apologetics. Do you find it as unethical as I do, which is completely? If you're not familiar with this style of apologetics, just look up Sye Ten Bruggencate, Jeff Durbin, Matt slick, Dustin Segers, or watch one of the videos by Darth Dawkins...

I'm 53, an Objectivist, and I love discussing ideas. Not interested in debating the existence of gods but rather am interested in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics. I find that I have very little in common with other atheists, philosophically. I'm a woodcarver and an avid cyclist and...