Category: Philosophy
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Egoism is the Antidote to christianity
by Jason Stotts Whenever you’re approached by a christian who wants to convert you to their way of thinking just remind them of Luke 14:26: “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be…
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Father’s Day
by Jason Stotts Note, I was originally intending to have this published on Father’s Day, but it wasn’t ready in time. Today, on the day that we celebrate fatherhood and thank our fathers for bringing us into existence and raising us well, I think it makes sense to discuss what fatherhood is, and paternity more…
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Rationalism Among Objectivists
by Jason Stotts I was perusing this week’s Objectivist Blog Carnival when I noticed a post that sounded interesting: Benjamin Skipper’s “You Can Only Hate What’s *There*.” Now, I was interested in this because I’m very interested in theories of emotion and this piece sounded particularly misguided by the title. The piece didn’t disappoint. The…
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Prostitution
by Jason Stotts Someone asked me at ATLOSCon what I thought about prostitution and I’m glad that I didn’t get asked the question during my lecture. I think I gave a pretty good answer to their question, but it’s one of those questions that I have not spent enough time thinking about to give a…
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ATLOSCon Speech
by Jason Stotts I want to thank everyone who attended my lecture this morning. 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,…
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ATLOSCon 2011
by Jason Stotts Kelly Elmore has a very kind piece up on her blog Reepicheep’s Coracle about my talk at ATLOSCon, called “Sex at ATLOSCon.” Now, before you get the wrong idea, I’m not going to be having sex with anyone at ATLOSCon (they’re not paying me enough for that!). The piece contains some very…
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ATLOSCon Flyer
by Jason Stotts So, as many of you know, I’m going to be speaking this summer at ATLOSCon. I’m supposed to make a flyer to help promote my blog there and I definitely want to do that to help bring in new readers. The problem is that I’m not that into designing and I don’t…