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I've been reading articles and listening to podcasts in the mises institute website, LRC, and FreedomanRadio for two years now. I've read ''Economics in One Lesson'' and ''How and Economy Grows and Why it Doesn't''. I'm wondering if I can derive any value...
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I am an objectivist and hence my philosophical base is Individualism. Recently, one of my friend raised an issue on Mahatma Gandhi, by terming him as a Libertarian. I found it wrong and infact disturbing and I opposed him, but my friend stated that...
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So I'm trying to understand the Objectivist POV on sense perception, but I'm having some trouble here. I was reading Leonard Peikoff's book about Objectivism, and in it, he stated that our sense perceptions are correct as an axiom. How can this be? If humans can have dreams and hallucinations...
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Open letter to Thomas M Schmidt: Your interesting article/course lecture published at http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/schmidt6.html titled “Programming the 21 st Century” reminded me of a philosophy course lecture I attended in 1960 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. With no prior indication...
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[quote user="Brett_McS"] I don't disagree with the concept, just the choice of the word, for "anarchy" also mean "chaos" ("Political disorder and confusion" , "confusion; chaos; disorder"). It is unfortunate. [/quote] In reply, I quote from an article...
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I recently read The Market for Liberty , Linda & Morris Tannehill's 1970 anarcho-Objectivist manifesto. I was struck by many passages. There were many ideas presented that I had not thought of previously, and this work really helped solidify my perspective of anarchism as an orderly system. As...
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That "man acts" is not a philosophical axiom. It is an inductive conclusion based on certain facts derived from observation and philosophical axioms. (There is a second implied claim that we can make universally valid inductive generalizations, but that is a separate and complex philosophical...