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ayn rand Rebirth of ReasonTM is an organization dedicated to the philosophy of Objectivism, a philosophy devoted to living on earth. The philosophy was developed by Ayn Rand, a novelist-philosopher in the 20th century.

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The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom. - Ayn Rand
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Tuesday
May 15, 2012
Commentary
Creation of an Ethical Business: The Implementation of Virtuous Behavior and Shared Values and Goals
by Jessica L. Kuryn
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In today’s competitive business environment, a growing number of firms will do almost anything to gain sales and customers, as well as to increase profits.  For some of these firms, playing by the rules doesn’t achieve the results they are after.  Firms have the choice to act ethically or unethically.  While misguided ... (Read more...)
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Gay Day for Gays. by Edward Hudgins May 10, 2012 -- President Obama’s announcement that he supports same-sex marriage is likely to mean that in a decade or two this will no longer be a major public policy issue. Individuals of whatever gender will be able to enter into marriage contracts. But in the sh...(Read more...)
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Article Discussions
Objectivist Virtue Ethics in Business
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (0) Machan - 5/09, 7:43am - I have written and edited numerous books and papers in busin...
Creation of an Ethical Business: The Implementation of Virtu...
(0) Teresa Summerlee Isanhart - 5/15, 3:40pm - This is a great article!
(1) Luke Setzer - 5/16, 4:30am - Great article! See also "Learning Lessons from BB&T" ...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (2) Jessica L. Kuryn - 5/16, 3:03pm - Thank you Teresa and Luke!
(3) Fred Bartlett - 5/16, 8:12pm - "growth" in an ethical business is a consequence of some oth...
News Discussions
Gay Day for Gays.
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (0) Steve Wolfer - 5/16, 12:58am - Ed, that was excellent! I recognize that Obama's anno...
Books
Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
(19) Stephen Boydstun - 5/16, 7:50am - Forthcoming in 2013: Ayn Rand: A Companion to Her Wor...
Pathological Altruism
(34) Merlin Jetton - 5/16, 2:37pm - I have read more than half the chapters in the book. The boo...
(35) Ed Thompson - 5/16, 3:21pm - Jonah Goldberg's new book takes issue with the neuroscience ...
(36) Ed Thompson - 5/16, 4:12pm - 2 recent examples ... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub...
(37) Ed Thompson - 5/16, 8:03pm - Merlin, It looks like you accidentally typed the wron...
Quotes
The less one knows, the closer one comes to sharing with blo...
(1) Stephen Boydstun - 5/09, 4:45am - "For according to Aristotle, that is termed natural whic...
Dissent
Some comments about "race" and "intelligence"
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (63) Ethan Dawe - 5/09, 1:01pm - Please allow me to find some facts to rationalize my hatred ...
(64) Brad Trun - 5/10, 4:17am - To withhold full consideration of the factual merits of a cl...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (65) Ethan Dawe - 5/10, 8:14am - There is no value (to me) to the above post by Brad Trun. I ...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (66) Laure Chipman - 5/10, 10:42am - Brad says we can use information about statistical differenc...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (67) Luke Setzer - 5/10, 11:48am - Anthony Robbins corroborates Laure Chipman's assertion: ...
(68) Brad Trun - 5/10, 12:32pm - Laure, If by "absolutely, horribly, wrong and immoral...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (69) Laure Chipman - 5/10, 12:40pm - My objection is that you cannot judge what expectations are ...
(70) Ethan Dawe - 5/10, 12:46pm - Brad, No one has to refute your "facts" The statistic...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (71) Brad Trun - 5/10, 1:11pm - Neither category deconstruction nor the invocation of the co...
(72) Ethan Dawe - 5/10, 1:19pm - You are not worth a rational argument. I give you my categor...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (73) Ed Thompson - 5/10, 6:15pm - What's wrong with this picture? The variance-in-outco...
(74) Ed Thompson - 5/11, 4:49am - To withhold full consideration of the factual merits of a cl...
(75) Brad Trun - 5/11, 1:05pm - "Estimates in the academic research of the heritability of I...
(76) Steve Wolfer - 5/11, 2:14pm - When the pattern of behavior of an individual reveals that h...
(77) Brad Trun - 5/11, 4:04pm - Steve, if you'll tell me what a "duck" is, I'll tell you if ...
(78) Luke Setzer - 5/11, 4:46pm - Brad, are you now or have you ever been a member of Mensa or...
(79) Brad Trun - 5/11, 4:54pm - Luke, I've never looked into whether I'd qualify for any hig...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (80) Luke Setzer - 5/11, 5:32pm - Brad, I thought surely someone as obsessed with IQ as you wo...
(81) Brad Trun - 5/11, 6:59pm - I harp on IQ and brain data because it refutes, objectively,...
(82) Luke Setzer - 5/11, 7:19pm - I am an ISTJ but I have heard Ayn Rand described as an INTJ....
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (83) Steve Wolfer - 5/11, 8:28pm - Brad, you are a racist because you apply statistics in ways ...
(84) Brad Trun - 5/12, 12:44am - Luke, you say you "do not take these IQ tests and their raci...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (85) Ed Thompson - 5/12, 2:18am - There is about a 60-point range in lab-measured IQ in humans...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (86) Ed Thompson - 5/12, 7:56am - Ironically, there's an ignorant presumption of equality rega...
(87) Brad Trun - 5/12, 9:07am - Ed, you apparently don't even understand what explaining IQ ...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (88) Steve Wolfer - 5/12, 11:01am - I have hundreds of thoughtful fans on youtube Yeah, but hav...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (89) Mike Erickson - 5/12, 12:01pm - I perceive Brad's argument is simply that the political soci...
(90) Steve Wolfer - 5/12, 12:52pm - Mike, Brad's argument is that blacks are intellectual...
(91) Ed Thompson - 5/12, 1:28pm - Brad, you have a religious-level conviction in the biochemic...
(92) Ed Thompson - 5/12, 1:47pm - Your basic error is that you do not know how to go about pro...
(93) Ed Thompson - 5/12, 3:18pm - Here's an analogy Three scientists -- Prag, Matt, and...
(94) Ed Thompson - 5/13, 8:09am - What will I find, Brad, if I go back through all of your cit...
Videos
The Gap between the Rich and the Poor
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (15) Ed Thompson - 5/09, 4:51am - Michael, i understand that under capitalism the gap i...
Ron Paul Fed Meeting Part 1
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (0) Dean Michael Gores - 5/10, 2:23am - My proposal for improving the Federal Reserve: 1. Remove ...


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Tuesday
November 8, 2005
Commentary
Machan's Musings - Corporate Self-Flagellation
by Tibor R. Machan
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This is one of the most infuriating things I experience on a nearly daily basis: businesses that are sponsoring total disrespect toward business. Any Rand used to call this "the sanction of the victim," suggesting that these are good people who are accepting bad things said about them. But I think they are not always such good people. (Read more...)
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