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Getty Editor’s Note: Earlier this week, in an essay that drew a deluge of comments, British comic, actor and filmmaker Ricky Gervais argued against the existence of God.
Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions - Speakeasy - WSJ
Objectivism is a philosophy created by Russian-American philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905–1982). Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independent of consciousness , that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic , that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (or rational self-interest ), that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez faire capitalism , and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally.
Objectivism (Ayn Rand) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Former Christian apologizes for being such a huge shit head for all those years | PochoBlog
As a former zealous right-wing Catholic who years ago ditched all that in favor of using the mind, in reading this , I felt I could repeat this almost word-for-word. So here it is with my emphases and commentary…
Jean Meslier (15 June 1664 [ 1 ] – 17 June 1729) was a French Catholic priest who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism .
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