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Category: Objectivism

  • Announcement: SoCal Objectivists

    by Jason Stotts Earl Parson and I have decided that we’re going to be starting an Objectivist Society here in Southern California, home of the Ayn Rand Institute and of probably the highest concentration of objectivists in the country.  It’s really strange that with so many us living in the area, there are no social…

  • Chicago Minicon

    by Jason Stotts I want to thank everyone who attended my lecture over the weekend at COSCon.  I hope that everyone found it interesting and engaging.  If you’re interested in further readings, I recommend starting with the following: 1. “Of Living Death,” The Objectivist.  Especially 530-531. (Or: The Voice of Reason, 46-63.) 2. “Francisco’s Sex Speech,” from Atlas Shrugged,…

  • Formspring: Moral Differences between Sex Acts?

    by Jason Stotts I received this question recently, which is partly a response to my answer of the last formspring question “When is Sex Appropriate?“.  The question is this: What is the moral difference between manual, oral and vaginal sex? Is there one? Should one’s standards for partners vary for each of these activities? Why…

  • Objectivist Blog Carnival

    Welcome to the August 25, 2011 edition of the Objectivist Round Up.  I’m filling in this week as an emergency host, so forgive me for not sending out reminder e-mails earlier. Today’s quote is brought to you from Nietzsche.  Although he and I understand it differently, he phrases it so beautifully: Egoism is the very…

  • Too Much of a Good Thing?

    by Jason Stotts I think the idea of “too much of a good thing” being bad is nonsense and it is based on an incorrect understanding of “good”. For Objectivism, for something to be “good,” it must promote the life of the agent. Good, for Objectivism, is not intrinsic, or by divine decree, or some…

  • Second Annual Objective Standard Essay Contest

    by Jason Stotts The Objective Standard is once again holding an essay contest on Atlas Shrugged.  Don’t miss out on a good opprotunity for fortune and fame, all through merely putting your pen to paper. ———————— http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/Essay/ In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand dramatizes the principle that “there are no conflicts of interest among rational men, men…

  • “Unexpected” Outcomes

    by Jason Stotts Pajamas Media recently ran an op-ed by Paul Hsieh called “Why the ‘Unexpected’ Keeps Happening.”  I highly recommend this article and I think that more people should consider that when theories consistently fail to predict what will happen in reality (socialism, Keynesian economics), we should abandon these theories as obviously false. If…

  • Announcement: Live Speaking

    by Jason Stotts After having such a good time speaking at ATLOSCon, I’ve decided that I’m going to start doing more live speaking engagements!  Honestly, I need some more work to be a really great public speaker in terms of my presentation and speaking skills, but the content is already there and I have no…