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Public Group active 2 months, 2 weeks agoFor those interested in objectivism, and it’s application to education.
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Sean Ham started the forum topic The purpose of education… in the group Objectivism: 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
“The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of [...]
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Sean Ham created the group Objectivism 7 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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New external post Hawley’s Heroes and the Romance of Business from the blog The Fountainhead Institute » Objectivism in the group Objectivism 3 years, 9 months ago · View
Imagine a novel whose mysterious main character you do not meet until page 236. He is reviled by some for his greed and destructiveness, revered by others for his generosity and remarkable creativity. The plot revolves around discovering who he is and what he stands for. Toward the end of the story, he makes a
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New external post Schools for Individualists: TNI’s exclusive interview with Marsha Enright, by Sara Pentz from the blog The Fountainhead Institute » Objectivism in the group Objectivism 4 years, 6 months ago · View
Marsha Familaro Enright has been attracted by the pleasures and problems of education since the third grade. Trained in biology and psychology, she has written research articles on psychology, neuropsychology, development, and education for a number of publications. She founded the Council Oak Montessori School near Chicago in 1990 and has served as its president
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New external post If Emotions Aren’t Tools of Cognition, what are they? from the blog The Fountainhead Institute » Objectivism in the group Objectivism 8 years ago · View
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New external post Chapter 6 Goal-Causation, by Marsha Enright from the blog The Fountainhead Institute » Objectivism in the group Objectivism 15 years, 5 months ago · View
In the following, I plan to summarize the essence of Binswanger’s argument on goal-causation, and then expand on the issues he brings up and discuss any problems or objections I have with his arguments. Time has not permitted me to be as complete and persuasive in my objections as I might like – I only
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New external post Why man needs approval from the blog The Fountainhead Institute » Objectivism in the group Objectivism 19 years, 8 months ago · View
Originally published in Objectivity, Volume 1, Number 2.
In Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, Ken Danagger asks Dagny Taggart:
“And if you met those great men in heaven, . . . what would you want to say to them?”
“Just . . . just hello, I guess.”
“That’s not all,” said Danagger. “There’s something you’d want to hear from them . -
Sean Ham uploaded the file Philosophy: Who Needs It to Objectivism 10 years, 9 months ago · View
