Tag: Blog Carnival
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the April 19, 2012 edition of the Objectivist Round Up and the 13th time that Erosophia has hosted. This week I want to put up three quotes to remind everyone that nothing should be outside the purview of reason: “Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his…
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the December 15, 2011 edition of the Objectivist Round Up. Today’s quote is Ayn Rand’s response to whether an atheist should celebrate christmas: Yes, of course. A national holiday, in this country, cannot have an exclusively religious meaning. The secular meaning of the Christmas holiday is wider than the tenets of any particular…
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Objectivist Thanksgiving Carnival
Welcome to the November 24, 2011 edition of the Objectivist Round Up. When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of a time when family and friends get together to appreciate the good things in the last year and to enjoy the value of good company and good food. Thanksgiving is a holiday when we can…
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the September 22, 2011 edition of objectivist round up! We’re going to start this Round-Up with one of my favorite Ayn Rand quotes: “If some man like Hugh Akston,” said Hank Rearden in Atlas Shrugged, “had told me, that by accepting the mystic’s theory of sex I was accepting the looter’s theory of economics, I would…
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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…