 Society as an End and Society as a Means
by Manfred F. Schieder
Which of both is the type of society corresponding to the rational, free, peaceful and productive individual? This article presents the analysis in favor of the correct foundation of coexistence. (Read more...)
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 Degrading Art
by Manfred F. Schieder
For long stretches of time, art has been used to nullify reason as the characteristic that identifies human beings. Nowadays, through "modern art", it display existence as worthless and despicable. But art is the tool to show the universe and life's magnificence and also the means to promote the creation of a rational type of society. As such, it deserves greatest attention and respect. (Read more...)
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 Implementing Capitalism
by Manfred F. Schieder
The implementation of liberalism (in the European sense of the term) as the future social system and Capitalism as its economic tool, requires the previous training of the future administrators that will take up the practical task of reforming the present form and content of governments into Administrations of the Means of Defense of the Rights of the Individual. This article contemplates some of the topics involved. (Read more...)
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 The Dubai Marvels
by Manfred F. Schieder
The architectural and engineering achievements being nowadays set up in Dubai, at the United Arab Emirates, are testimonies of human ingenuity and capacity, but they are also symbols marking the amazing depth that human immorality has now reached. Peaceful, productive life and togetherness among different human races, nations and populations require from all involved a strict adherence to the personal, individual rights to life and limb. (Read more...)
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RELIGULOUS: Mankind, a rational Species? Ha!
by Manfred F. Schieder
"Religulous", the movie that inspired this article, points out the fact that mankind is moving at top-speed to the abyss of its destruction due to the malevolent spirit of faith and force, the corollaries that Ayn Rand clearly described in her essay "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World." This is a call to action to avoid this dark prospect. (Read more...)
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 ANALYSIS of a QUOTE
by Manfred F. Schieder
This article comprises a full analysis of a quote of mine published by "Rebirth of Reason". It aims to clear some misunderstandings among several readers. At the end the reader will find a theorem or summary of the content, though it is recommended to read the article first. (Read more...)
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Gustave Courbet and "The Origin of the World"
by Manfred F. Schieder
Gustave Courbet pointed out the exact moment at which the world begins to exist for each of us human beings. The knowledge of this one and only existence is a stern call to fill our life with peaceful, productive efforts that allow us to seek and reach personal happiness. (Read more...)
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January 21, 2009 |
Preparing for Capitalism
by Manfred F. Schieder
While the present worldwide situation doesn't make it seem likely that the time for the establishment of a Capitalist social system is at hand, evolution itself proves that this moment must arrive. But the changes involved require the activity of previously prepared managers for the establishment of the Capitalist system. This article takes up the administrative requirements and further theoretical and practical tasks this feat will involve. (Read more...)
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 Ayn Rand and the End of Malthus
by Manfred F. Schieder
The existing altruistic type of society that characterized mankind's existence up to now, belongs to the realm of the irrational animals and is, thus, kept within bounds by Malthus' "solutions": hunger, plagues (diseases) and wars. The type of society that characterizes the rational human being, avoids these prospects by applying a totally different code of social existence. (Read more...)
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Art and Evolution
by Manfred F. Schieder
Painting and sculpture clearly depict and describe mankind's painful growth to what nature's evolution itself automatically designed it to be: beings characterized by the faculty of reason, a faculty whose development itself history has shown to be a stumbling, hesitant progress toward the goal of total fulfillment. The article analyzes the evolution of man from the point of view of his aesthetic efforts and the colossal task that lies ahead. (Read more...)
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November 19, 2008 |
Paul K. Driessen and Ayn Rand: A Book and a Campaign to Change the World
by Manfred F. Schieder
Objectivists have an extraordinarily great opportunity to spread the Objectivist ideas on a worldwide basis, as applied to a most worthwhile cause: to raise the poor from their poverty on their own bootstraps. (Read more...)
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This Strange Thing Called Capitalism
by Manfred F. Schieder
A short analysis of what Capitalism really is. (Read more...)
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Martin Wolf and the Soft Way against Globalization
by Manfred F. Schieder
An analysis of Martin Wolf's book "Why Globalization Works", pointing out that his support lacks the required recognition of the basis that makes globalization efficient. (Read more...)
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The Refueling of our Power for Creation
by Manfred F. Schieder
Ayn Rand, I, and the Universe, Part 7 and 8 (Read more...)
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The Logically Resulting Type of Society
by Manfred F. Schieder
Ayn Rand, I, and the Universe, Part 6 [Editor's Note: Last week I accidentally clipped two sections out of the end of this article. Here it is with those two sections restored.] (Read more...)
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The Required Change of Ethics
by Manfred F. Schieder
Ayn Rand, I, And the Universe, Part 5 (Read more...)
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Our Capacity To Think
by Manfred F. Schieder
Ayn Rand, I, And the Universe, Part 4 (Read more...)
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The Structure of the Universe
by Manfred F. Schieder
Ayn Rand, I, and the Universe, Part 3 (Read more...)
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Erasing Impossibilities
by Manfred F. Schieder
Ayn Rand, I, and the Universe: Part 2 (Read more...)
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Ayn Rand, I and The Universe Part 1
by Manfred F. Schieder
Editor's Note: As mentioned previously, we are running Manfred's book as a chapter-a-week serial on RoR. Here is the first installment which includes the introduction, table of contents, and chapter 1. Due to the length of these articles they will be run on each Friday to give reader's ample time before a new article takes the headline space. (Read more...)
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Ayn Rand and Rational Egoism: The dynamo of human progress
by Manfred F. Schieder
[Editor's Note: This article forms an introduction of sorts to a book written by Manfred that we will be publishing here in the form of a chapter-a-week serial.]
Excepting the followers of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism, those others who seemingly promote the application of Capitalism as the system required to produce general wellbeing, defend it on the wrong basis of religious principles. Capitalism as a social system does not originate on such doctrines but corresponds to a completely new stage of human evolution. (Read more...)
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Ayn Rand in Argentina
by Manfred F. Schieder
Ayn Rand’s Objectivism continues to spread worldwide. This time it’s Argentina, in the southern part of the world, where the Spanish version of several of her books was presented at an international books trade fair. (Read more...)
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Dystopia and Utopia: The Story of The Two Johns and Other Such Randian Jewels
by Manfred F. Schieder
Ayn Rand's life and works contain many surprises, symbols and moving oddities. A few examples show how masterfully she spun connections and injected symbolism into her work. (Read more...)
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Tamara de Lempicka, a Howard Roark of Art
by Manfred F. Schieder
Have you ever heard of Tamara de Lempicka? She became a millionaire in her lifetime without any government grants or subsidies and worked her way up against all odds, particularly the Avant-garde “created” by mainly Marxist artists and intellectuals, best represented by that “work of art” of Kazimir Malevitch (1878-1935) known as “Black square on white background”, a feat that shattered his brain for the rest of his life. (Read more...)
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Kant And The New Tactics To Destroy Objectivism
by Manfred F. Schieder
Under the pretense of “bettering and correcting"(!) Objectivism, a new breed of attacks against it has been launched by academics, commentators and sundry intellectuals. Some do it aiming at accommodating Objectivism to Kant and all of them, whether declared or implicitly, follow the Kantian guide of destructiveness. By doing so they unwittingly confirm that Ayn Rand perfectly recognized Kant as the paramount of nowaday's evilness, following the path whose philosophical originator was Plato.
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