From the Academy to Atlas Shrugged: An Appreciation

April 2, 2009 From the Academy to Atlas Shrugged: An Appreciation

By noreply@blogger.com (Edward Cline) from The Rule of Reason,cross-posted by MetaBlog

Were you alive in Aristotle‘s time, had attended his lectures at the Academy, and had read his works, as well, would you have grasped the importance of those works to your existence? Would [...]

The Many Faces of Libertarianism

… The need for freedom is based on the need to reason. Force and the threat of it, and the threat of fraud throttles reason. Reason is the uniquely human means of dealing with reality in order to flourish, yea, in order to survive. If reason is shut down by fear of force, man is [...]

You really WANT communism? Try OpEd. Try Obama.

I posted this originally today as a comment, here slightly enhanced, to:

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/November_4_2008_Will_Be_A_Day_Of_Reckoning

We have had quite enough of OpEd-type diatribe.  I am going to use the word communism here, but want readers to understand that Left, Liberal, Socialist, Fascist, Progressive, Communism are merely different straws on the broom.  One leads to another, never does [...]

Ayn Rand on Donahue – Full Interview Here

Ayn Rand defined for us the essence of true morality. We are collapsing today because all of us failed in our due diligence, standing idly by and watching and sometimes whining, but too rarely referring to the causual underlying morality of her objectivism, which later was picked up and became the Libertarian Party, which largely [...]

Ron Paul, America’s last hope, abandoned us today!

I believe this to be the most important blurb I’ve ever written.  I have submitted this to Digg, so help us all, both at Digg It!, and have the courage to comment here at Morality101.

I am very disappointed that Ron Paul abandoned us today, telling us to ‘vote no’ by voting for any [...]

They just don’t get it!

Striker posted In response to The Madness of Ayn Rand

Uh, who is mad? Submitted by Dean Striker on April 19, 2008 – 3:11pm.

I’m not really an “YoungPerson”, having made Atlas Shrugged my bible back about 1963. Objectivism and stereotypical conservatism are apples and oranges, having little or no correlation. Ayn Rand defined for [...]

Objectivism

Objectivism is the moral philosophy defined by Ayn Rand in numerous writings, of which her book ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is probably best known. Another book was ‘Fountainhead’, the basis for a movie starring Gregory Peck which really didn’t convey her concepts, in my opinion it was a lousy movie.

We begin by suggesting you trip to [...]