Forgive me; I don't really understand what you're saying. I really do not follow. Are you essentially saying virtue means self improvement? To be hone...
If I don't know someone I just assume they are generally rational and are thinking honestly for themselves. Why do you entertain a strange story about...
There's also the absurdity that I didn't grasp that if Objectivist ethics are necessary to be happy, then no one in history, except for Ayn Rand and t...
Good question. I don't think believing a philosophy or a claim in its entirety is prima facie always wrong, but I do agree that if I was convinced by ...
Well I initially believed it to be entirely correct, and so if I found difficulties in my own life, it was a moral failing, my fault, nothing to do wi...
I would say I do still appreciate and agree with many aspects of it. The need for a personal morality to me makes sense. The Greek's virtue ethics is ...
The humanity restoration goes deep. I would not even pursue sex due to feelings of gulit. I kind of crushed all of my desires. Self moralizing and suc...
Yeah. Even as someone who would have identified as 90% Objectivist, I could not get along with them. It can feel like a secular religion for sure. Int...
isn't that really your estimation? I'm sure many people disagree with this assessment, so I guess that's why they continue to study it. In any case, i...
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