Individualism Archive
Every Man As an End in Himself
Did you know that all 328 pages of Tara Smith's book Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist are available online through Google? [Correction: Apparently only part of it is available.]
I stumbled across the book ...
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Do AQAL and Spiral Dynamics Really Help with Political Analysis?
I enjoyed reading Matthew Dallman's brief critique of spiral dynamics (the first chunk of block-indented text on this page).
I'm relatively new to the theory of spiral dynamics, but I too am beginning to wonder whether ...
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Capitalism = Happiness?
The situation may not be as simple as "Living Under Capitalism = Being Happier" but a new article in New Scientist called "Wealthy Nations Hold the Key to Happiness" suggests that such a conclusion is ...
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Money Doesn’t Buy Much Happiness
June 29, 2006 · Category: Health, Individualism
How much happiness does money actually buy you? About twelve percent -- or less, if you look at actual happiness, rather than reported life satisfaction.
From a LiveScience article about a new study to be ...
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Joe Duarte on American Dreams
Today my friend Joe Duarte published an eloquent column at the Atlasphere titled "American Dreams." In it, he explores ways in which certain dreams are more worthy than others. Recommended reading.
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Will the Internet Help Do Away with Entrenched Two-party Politics?
From an excellent article at Newsweek by Jonathan Alter, updating us all on the age in which we live and why it's going to prove significant during the next presidential election:
Bob Schieffer of CBS News ...
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Who Pays Taxes in the USA
May 24, 2006 · Category: Individualism, Politics
My friend Thomas Ryan Stone has a nice blog entry on the topic of who actually pays the vast majority of the taxes in the United States.
He provides a link to a two-page report (PDF) ...
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Quotes from ‘The Way of the Superior Man’
I've been reading (sometimes re-reading) chapters from David Deida's magnificent book The Way Of The Superior Man on a regular basis lately.
I often do this for a few minutes at night before heading to bed, ...
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‘The Good’ on Good Friday
The Atlasphere just published a holiday column by Editor Jason Dixon titled 'The Good' on Good Friday.
It's an excellent article -- and today's required mudita reading.
It begins:
Around the world today, Christians are celebrating Good Friday ...
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On Objectivism and Living Well
Will Wilkinson makes some interesting observations about Objectivism's failure to fully address the importance of human sociality.
His observations correspond with some of my own observations recently about problems within Objectivism.
For example, during the recent TOC ...
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