Principles cannot be property. An identification of "what is" or "what should be", once it has been shared with another person, is "free for all." The formulation of a number of identifications into a system of ideas is the intellectual property of the person who does the formulating. Objectivism as formulated in Galt's Speech (in For the New Intellectual, the speech is introduced with the words "This is Objectivism") is Rand's intellectual property. Objectivism as formulated by Nathaniel Bran
On February 3, 2002 on the old Atlantis email list, R. Christian Ross asked: "what, if any, ought to be the goals of Objectivism? If you were CEO of Objectivism Inc. what would you do? What is Objectivism 404?" Here are several theoretical topics in Objectivism that have long interested me, and which I think are crucial to its future viability: 1. Rand's Trichotomy. Starting with his lectures on Objectivism in 1975-76, Peikoff has warped the intrinsic-subjective-objective trichotomy, due to his
Welcome to my blog on Objectivist Living! As some of you already know, it has been my intent for over 40 years to propose and promote improvements to Objectivism, the philosophy developed by the Russian-American novelist, Ayn Rand, and her two chief spokesmen, Nathaniel Branden and Leonard Peikoff. I have done so through numerous essays published in magazines and journals since 1970, and I continue to write material for forthcoming essays and at least two books, one on false alternatives in phil
