Erosophia

Category: Objectivism

  • Question: Pornography and Ayn Rand

    by Jason Stotts I get a lot of interesting questions at Erosophia and I try to answer as many of them as I can. When I think the question and answer is particularly interesting, I usually publish an anonymized version of it.  This is one of those. Hi Jason. What is your basic advice on using…

  • Ayn Rand’s Anthem to Play in New York

    by Jason Stotts It’s no secret that Ayn Rand is one of my favorite authors and philosophers.  So, imagine my excitement when I found out that one of my favorite of her books is being made into a play!  Jeff Britting, who I first met  back in my interns days at ARI, has taken Anthem…

  • The Fountainhead’s ‘Rape Scene’: a Case Study of Consensual Non-Consent

    by Jason Stotts Overview: The Fountainhead’s “rape scene” is not, in context, a scene of rape at all.  One might even say that Roark could have been given no clearer invitation.  Moreover, we can understand what this kind of thing might look like in the real world through the idea of consensual non-consent. This essay…

  • Update on Eros and Ethos

    by Jason Stotts If you’ve been reading Erosophia for a while now, you know I’m working on my first nonfiction book currently titled: Eros and Ethos: The Ethics of Modern Sex.  It has been going painstakingly slow for quite some time, but I’m happy to announce that the speed of writing has improved and great…

  • ATLOSCon 2013

    by Jason Stotts If you’re going to be in the Atlanta area over Memorial Day weekend, definitely check out ATLOSCon!  They’ve got a great line up of people and it’s a really great conference. You can find their full schedule of events here. Hopefully next year things will work out and I’ll be able to…

  • Announcement: New Objectivist Educational Organization

    by Jason Stotts My friend Marc Baer asked me to post an announcement of a new organization he is starting with Bach Ho.  I am doing so here purely for informational reasons and not as an endorsement: I have not read all of their claims yet or had a chance to evaluate them.  On the…

  • Atheism on the Move

    by Jason Stotts Apparently during the Super Bowl (I say apparently because I don’t care about sports and didn’t watch it) there was a commercial for Atheism: [UPDATE – apparently this was a video for scientology (another nonsense religon) that someone edited to be for atheism.] I think it’s great that religion is losing it’s…

  • Radically Candid Interview

    by Jason Stotts I was recently interviewed by the Radically Candid Podcast team on all sorts of topics in sexuality.  If you’re looking for a no-holds-barred, uncensored, whirlwind tour of my sexual theory, this is the interview for you! (LINK) Radically Candid scrapes dangerously close to legitimacy as we welcome Jason Stotts, philosopher and blogger at Erosophia,…