Objectivism Archive
Contra Ayn Rand, and Gordon Gekko, greed is NOT good
Here is a point I've been meaning to make publicly to other Objectivists for many years. I posted this as a comment on John Enright's post.
Ayn Rand called Galt's Gulch a "utopia of greed" ...
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Profits are like happiness: If you aim for it directly, you’re more likely to miss
I've become very intrigued lately by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's concept of "conscious capitalism" (link to PDF essay).
A few days ago, Justin Fox from Time Magazine published a lengthy interview with Mackey and his ...
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Buying a Spot on the Syllabus … for Atlas Shrugged
(Cross-posted from the Atlasphere's Ayn Rand meta-blog.)
Inside Higher Ed Editor Scott Jaschik kindly sent a link to his new story "Buying a Spot on the Syllabus," which is indeed very interesting. He begins:
Some professors at ...
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Atlas Shrugged Movie Updates from Executive Producer John Aglialoro
February 25, 2008 · Category: Atlasphere, Objectivism
If you're hungry for information about the coming Atlas Shrugged movie (how much was it delayed by the writers strike? how firmly committed is Angelina?) don't miss the new interview with John Aglialoro at the ...
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Walter Donway: “The Struggle for Poetry’s Soul”
Walter Donway just sent the following announcement, which explains the significance of his essay as well as anything I might hope to write:
My brief essay "The Struggle for Poetry's Soul" just went up on the ...
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Objectivism, Modern Politics, and the Non-initiation of Force
A friend made some claims in a friends-only post at LiveJournal, and a disagreement between us ensued. Since it was a friends-only post, I cannot really quote his post here in public.
The issues raised ...
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Vadim Perelman’s “House of Sand and Fog”
Last week I watched the DVD of Atlas Shrugged movie director Vadim Perelman's House of Sand and Fog.
(For more background about the Atlas Shrugged movie, I can't recommend highly enough Robert Bidinotto's new article ...
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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 ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 4 Comments »
Friendship Set on Fire
Today we published Peter Saint-Andre's excellent essay "The Art of Friendship" at the Atlasphere.
I am particularly fond of this essay.
Kathy e-mailed it to me in July 1999, shortly after we had ...
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Are Mormons Happier than Objectivists?
August 18, 2006 · Category: Objectivism
Will Wilkinson thinks so.
If he's right, then why is this the case? And what philosophical implications (if any) would it have?
This is a topic I've touched on before, to some extent.
From Will's post:
I’ve made this ...
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