422 Articles tagged with: Philosophy

• Still Waiting, with Ayn Rand, for America To Become “Intellectually Polarized”

  Has the United States become truly and thoroughly “polarized”? Two camps (very broadly speaking) face each other with extreme positions, implacable in their intent to defeat the other, incapable of tolerance for the opposing view, and screamin… Read Article

• TAS-sponsored student makes publishing impact

  The Atlas Society is proud to announce the second major publication in the psychology career of William Schultz. Schultz is a graduate student pursuing at PsyD degree in clinical psychology at The Minnesota School of Professional Psychology. His g… Read Article

• Intermediate course in Objectivist Ethics

  This 5-part course in the Objectivist ethics was filmed this summer, in Nashua, New Hampshire, as part of our annual Atlas Summit. 

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• Ethics in Society - Lecture 4 (Intermediate Course in Objectivism)

  While Objectivism holds that you’d need ethics even living alone, interacting with other people raises distinctive ethical questions and requires principles designed for the purpose. This session discusses the trader principle and its applicatio… Read Article

• The 25th Anniversary of The Atlas Society

  2015 marks 25 years since David Kelley founded the Institute for Objectivist Studies (now, The Atlas Society) with a call for a new, more open Objectivist movement founded on independent thought and objectivity.

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• Ethics for the Individual: Lecture 3 (Intermediate Course in Objectivist Ethics)

  Objectivism holds that each person needs ethics regardless of his or her social situation. Indeed, a Robinson Crusoe needs ethics as much as anyone. This session discusses the core content of ethics for the individual as such, including principl… Read Article

• Good Judgment

  Judgment is the cognitive task of taking account of a wide range of considerations, giving each its proper weight, separating what is essential from what is not, and arriving at a sound conclusion or decision.

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• Selfishness: What and Why

  This session explains the radical difference between Ayn Rand’s conception of selfishness and the conventional sense of that term.

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• The Nature of Ethics

  Objectivism conceives of ethics as a practical code to guide our actions. Is this what ethics is?

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• Justice and Benevolence

  Justice is an essential virtue in the Objectivist ethics. This Atlas Summit session, filmed this summer, covers the nature and importance of justice, both for personal life and for a good society.

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• Objectivist Studies monographs republished

  In 1998, The Atlas Society launched the Objectivist Studies series of monographs with the first two: “Rationality and the Psychology of Abstraction” by cognitive psychologist Kenneth Livingston; and “Evidence and Justification” by founder … Read Article

• Secular Sharia Law in Indiana

  Americans cannot tell the difference between ethics and politics.

  The Indiana religious freedom law—now being amended, it appears—has exposed the American version of sharia: Americans want to require people to be moral.   Indiana's fre… Read Article

• Objective Reality - An Atlas University Conversation

  May 13, 2014 -- Why do many philosophers deny the existence of objective reality? In this conversation David Kelley and William R Thomas discuss axioms and anti-objectivity. This conversation is based on Lecture 4, Objective Reality, part of our o… Read Article

• Postmodernism in the classroom

  Postmodernism became the leading intellectual movement in the late twentieth century. It has replaced modernism, the philosophy of the Enlightenment. For modernism’s principles of objective reality, reason, and individualism, it has substitute… Read Article

• The Intrinsic, the Subjective, and the Objective (Part 1)

  At our 2001 Summer Seminar Dr. David Ross offered this engaging overview of one of Ayn Rand's most important contributions to philosophy: the objective, subjective, intrinsic trichotomy. Objectivity is under attack from many directions today, bu… Read Article

• The Intrinsic, the Subjective, and the Objective (Part 2)

  At our 2001 Summer Seminar Dr. David Ross offered this engaging overview of one of Ayn Rand 's most important contributions to philosophy: the objective, subjective, intrinsic trichotomy. Objectivity is under attack from many directions today, b… Read Article

• Lecture 1: The Role of Philosophy | The Basic Principles of Objectivism

  Lecture 1. The Role of Philosophy. What is philosophy?—The historical role of reason—The bankruptcy of today's culture—Objectivism—Objectivism vs. subjectivism.

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• The Nature of Free Will

  Free will is a fundamental question in philosophy because it is the foundation of ethics. If man has no free choice in his actions then he does not need a moral code of how to choose his actions from a range of alternatives. In its broadest sens… Read Article

• Atlas Summit promo video

  Are you interested in Ayn Rand's novels and her philosophy of Objectivism? Come join like-minded individuals at the 2015 Atlas Summit. … Read Article

• The Epistemology of Perception

  Perception is the foundation of knowledge and the source of everything we know. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature, acquisition, and validation of knowledge. To make the connection between perception and the rest of… Read Article