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Post 80

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 11:10amSanction this postReply
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I thought Objectivism was anti-generosity.
Wherever did you get that idea - or, to be more precise, what is it you define as 'generosity'?


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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 1:05pmSanction this postReply
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Objectivism clearly does not regard generosity as a virtue. What is the point of Barbar Branden's argument?


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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 2:08pmSanction this postReply
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You have evaded the question - what do you define as 'generosity' ?

And, as recall, David Kelley made a nice slim volume regarding the issue of generosity as a virtue...

(Edited by robert malcom on 1/23, 2:08pm)


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Post 83

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 11:22pmSanction this postReply
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Simple Definitions

Invasion is an act of force, not necessarily of aggression. For America to have invaded Japan and Nazi Germany was an act of agresssion? This is very simple stuff that one must try awfully hard not to understand.

Generosity should properly be defined as providing others with as much value, consideration, respect, benefit of the doubt as possible when doing so hurts neither them nor you. In this case, generosity usually provides both parties with joy, and hurts no one. If that is not a virtue according to Objectivism, than I am not an objectivist.
(Edited by Ted Keer
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(Edited by Ted Keer
on 1/25, 12:31pm)


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Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 7:37pmSanction this postReply
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