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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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Thursday
May 23, 2013
Commentary
Causation in a Complex System
by Joseph Rowlands
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What is the right way to analyze a complex system? A complex system can have many variables with complex interactions, leading to complex effects that have many different attributes. Some examples of complex systems are economies, biological systems, climate, and child development. Each has an enormous number of fac... (Read more...)
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Saturday
May 18, 2013
Commentary
Back to Basics Please
by Tibor R. Machan
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The idea that occurs to me when confronted with the mess is that those who have even the mildest concern for rhyme and reason should press the Obama people on one central topic: Do the rights of individuals concern this government in the slightest? (Read more...)
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De-Socialization of America
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (0) Fred Bartlett - 5/17, 4:26am - Is it too early, or too late? The radicals have a hun...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (1) Fred Bartlett - 5/17, 4:39am - The Census Department would be tasked and funded to count Am...
(2) Fred Bartlett - 5/17, 4:44am - Come on folks, get out the figurative axe; what goes?
(3) Dean Michael Gores - 5/17, 12:31pm - The vast majority of individuals don't care so much about wh...
(4) Ed Thompson - 5/17, 6:20pm - Dean, ---------------- The vast majority of indivi...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (5) Ed Thompson - 5/17, 7:19pm - Fred, I never, in a million years, thought that I wou...
(6) Jules Troy - 5/18, 6:31am - Ed during the Iranian revolution the ayatollah said many of ...
(7) Ed Thompson - 5/18, 9:15am - Jules, Heh. I grabbed one of those impulse-buy, point...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (8) Jules Troy - 5/18, 10:13am - I Know! And Pol Pot was a "benevolent" school teacher! N...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (9) Fred Bartlett - 5/19, 3:32pm - Ed: Up is down, left is right, black is white... ...
(10) Fred Bartlett - 5/19, 6:29pm - Is it just me, or does Dan Pfeiffer even LOOK like H.R. Hald...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (11) Ed Thompson - 5/19, 11:47pm - Fred, You're killing me with the optimism. I love it....
(12) Fred Bartlett - 5/20, 4:44am - Ed: All kidding aside, you are so right on with that ...
Citizenship Education
(0) William Dwyer - 5/20, 2:05pm - Does anyone have this book? Citizenship Education (...

2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (0) Jerry Biggers - 5/23, 5:39pm - The INSTITUTE FOR OBJECTIVIST STUDIES (the original name of ...
(1) Stephen Boydstun - 5/23, 6:51pm - Wonderful seminars in the works! (Edi...
An Objectivist Phoenix: the Re-birth of IOS
(0) Jerry Biggers - 5/24, 7:01am - (NOTE: I originally posted this message yesterday, but forgo...
Objectivism Q&A
Atlas Shrugged, Part 3
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (1) Red Wanderer - 5/16, 6:55pm - >>>In our time, criticizing this production of Atlas Shrugge...
(2) Ed Thompson - 5/17, 6:02pm - I appreciate comments from the Red Wanderer (welcome to RoR,...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (3) Kyle Jacob Biodrowski - 5/17, 6:47pm - Ed, A little known fact about me is that my user name...
(4) Ed Thompson - 5/17, 7:36pm - You do not yet know what it is that you have just started, W...
(5) Kyle Jacob Biodrowski - 5/17, 7:52pm - Oh yes, Ed, I know. I've been around longer than you think. ...
(6) Teresa Summerlee Isanhart - 5/17, 8:22pm - Loved part 2, despite fully expecting to hate it. (Kyle, you...
(7) Ed Thompson - 5/18, 8:59am - Kyle, You're a wily character. I think you realize th...
(8) Jules Troy - 5/18, 10:33am - The first person I thought of was Reginald Firehammer but I ...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (9) Ed Thompson - 5/18, 11:45am - Thanks, Jules. Regi was awesome, though a bit rough a...
(10) Red Wanderer - 5/18, 12:32am - >>>Loved part 2, despite fully expecting to hate it. ...
(11) Kyle Jacob Biodrowski - 5/18, 2:07pm - ---------------------------------------------------------- ...
(12) Teresa Summerlee Isanhart - 5/20, 4:38pm - I really liked the acting. II's Dagny was actually better th...
(13) Fred Bartlett - 5/21, 2:55pm - Ed: I haven't been called Bred Fartlett since HS, and...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (14) Fred Bartlett - 5/21, 3:06pm - My hair started turning gray when I was 16, so Bred Fartlett...
(15) Teresa Summerlee Isanhart - 5/21, 3:25pm - The story of AS is so compelling, especially these days,...
(16) Michael E. Marotta - 5/22, 5:35pm - My favorite movie anagrams are from SNEAKERS. (We own two co...
(17) Red Wanderer - 5/23, 3:19pm - >>>ultimately they got nothin' except their own self-awarded...
(18) Teresa Summerlee Isanhart - 5/23, 4:50pm - Red, there's a context involved with Fred's comment. Did you...
(19) Red Wanderer - 5/23, 7:10pm - >>>Red, there's a context involved with Fred's comment. Did ...
(20) Teresa Summerlee Isanhart - 5/24, 2:11am - Well, I didn't miss it, and to do all of that work for somon...
Article Discussions
Machan's Musings - Writer vs. Reviewer: Sunstein’s Bifurcati...
(0) Steve Wolfer - 5/22, 10:11pm - Professor Machan wrote this article in January, 2006. ...
Back to Basics Please
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (0) Fred Bartlett - 5/23, 1:43pm - Do the rights of individuals concern this government/adminis...
Causation in a Complex System
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (0) Fred Bartlett - 5/24, 6:39am - Enjoyed the hell out of that. Mankind models all kind...
Blogs
Example of the decision analysis of consequentialism
(7) Ed Thompson - 5/18, 11:19am - More on Moral (e.g., hedonic) Calculus I would like t...
(8) Jules Troy - 5/18, 8:11pm - Argh!! I'm fuxored! My whole HEAD is one big part! I mean ...
(9) Ed Thompson - 5/20, 6:31pm - :-)
3 Ways to Draw an Inference
(5) Steve Wolfer - 5/17, 8:14am - Ed, ... the dog is learning about learning Exactly. And thi...
(6) Ed Thompson - 5/17, 5:43pm - Steve, ----------------- The truth is going to be ...


Random Past Article:

Thursday
July 20, 2006
The Good Life
Honesty versus Brutal Frankness
by G. Stolyarov II
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A popular misconception of honesty equates the virtue with always “telling it like it is” and not holding back any of one’s thoughts about a person, idea, or situation—no matter what the consequences of those thoughts. This view and its real-world applications are antithetical to genuine honesty. Mr. Stolyarov describes genuine honesty as being true to oneself above all and always striving to act on one’s best understanding of reality and one’s genuine self-interest. (Read more...)
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