objectivism

Files engaging with Objectivist philosophy — Rand, Peikoff, and related frameworks.

• History of Philosophy — Peikoff
• HoP Ep 1: Introduction
• HoP Ep 2: Thales
• HoP Ep 3: Heraclitus
• HoP Ep 4: Parmenides
• HoP Ep 5: Pythagoras
• HoP Ep 6: Pluralists & Atomists
• HoP Ep 7: Sophists
• HoP Ep 8: Socrates
• HoP Ep 9: Plato’s Metaphysics
• HoP Ep 10: Plato’s Epistemology
• HoP Ep 11: Plato’s Ethics
• HoP Ep 12: Plato’s Politics
• HoP Ep 13: Aristotle Intro
• HoP Ep 14: Aristotle’s Epistemology
• HoP Ep 15: Aristotle — Father of Logic
• Capitalism vs Socialism: Which Is the Moral System? (1984) — Peikoff and Ridpath defending capitalism in primary-source form; companion to the Peikoff lecture analyses
• The Objectivism Boundary — agreement is ontological (hypothetical oughts, no unchosen duties); the seam is life-vs-action, man qua man, the analytic/synthetic rejection, and egoism vs. EGT
• Objectivist Metaethics — A Call-In Specimen — an Objectivist states Rand’s metaethics straight; the caller’s stipulation-or-deduction question goes unanswered
• LiquidZulu — an open Objectivist (Objectivism = the philosophy of the primacy of existence) who derives anarcho-capitalism from it
• LiquidZulu — Responding to the Critics — Rand praised then broken with: “politics” is a frozen abstraction, law is the valid branch; the lifeboat section as an action-base argument
• LiquidZulu Course 1 — The Nature of Law — “source of rights = primacy of consciousness” as the intrinsicist badge on a constitutive account
• LiquidZulu Course 2 — The NAP — self-evidence as the Objectivist axiom-standard, applied to the NAP and failed
• LiquidZulu Course 3 — Homesteading — Rothbard’s trilemma as a false trichotomy; “potential to argue” as the universality ground
• LiquidZulu Course 4 — Contract Theory — Rothbard’s will-inalienability restated as abandonment; “will schmill”
• LiquidZulu Course 5 — Children — Rand’s “mere potentiality” rejected by relocating potential to before conception — and then relied on
• LiquidZulu Course 6 — Defensive Force — the categorical ought promised; the smoker and cognitive dissonance
• LiquidZulu Course 7 — Law as a Subset of Ethics — Rand’s “every is implies an ought” and Peikoff on evaders, quoted as the categorical ought — and conditional on the choice to live in the same sentences
• Warren Smith’s Controlled Comparison — one interrogation script, three respondents; the failure gradient and the closure-then-initiative rule
• LiquidZulu vs Liam Stayton — Open or Closed Objectivism? — what fixes the reference of a philosophy’s name: its essence, or the corpus its author designated