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Important Lecture 7pm Wed. 151 Everitt |
Current rating: 1 |
by Jeff Mayhugh
Email: mayhugh (nospam) uiuc.edu (verified) |
14 Oct 2003
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"Post-Modernism vs. Religion vs. Objectivism:
Which Is the Proper Code of Morality for Living on Earth?"
by Edwin A. Locke
Wednesday, October 15, 7 p.m.
151 Everitt Lab
This talk argues that only Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, provides a code of morality suitable for living successfully and happily on earth. Objectivism holds that reality is real, that reason is man's only means of knowing it and that one should act in one's own rational self-interest, with rationality being the highest virtue. Life is the objective standard of morality.
In contrast, Post-Modernism holds that objective knowledge is impossible and that morality is simply subjective opinion dictated by one's culture; for Post-Modernists there is no objective basis for preferring, for example, freedom to dictatorship. Religion asserts that reality is governed by supernatural forces, that knowledge is based on faith and that the highest moral act is one of self-sacrifice.
It will be shown that neither Post-Modernism nor religion can be practiced consistently and that neither is compatible with living successfully and happily in the real world. |
See also:
http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/ioc
http://www.aynrand.org
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Attack Of The Randroids |
by Neil Peart
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Current rating: 0
14 Oct 2003
Modified: 10:51:52 PM |
Notice that although the talk is about three competing points of view, there's only one speaker. It's not a debate, as the title might lead you to believe.
Of course, there's no debating Objectivists, since their "philosophy" is so airtight that not even Ms. Rand herself could gasp a last breath in it, lung cancer or no. They want to control the terms of the debate -- set the rules, essentially. Which then means you have to agree to their premises, which result in only their very static and predetermined conclusions.
The Campus Randroids attempted to have a "debate" with anyone from the IMC back in 2001 <http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display_any/2183>, but nobody had the time to waste.
Gee, I wonder who Mr. Edwin A. Locke is, and why he's such an authority on Post-Modernism and Religion. At least from the talk description given above (which reads like the introduction to college freshman rhet paper), his grasp on Post-Modernism seems to have come from the back of a set of dog-eared Cliff notes found in the dumpster behind Babbit's after their going out of business sale. |
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I Showed Up |
by the other objectivist in town
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15 Oct 2003
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Where the h*ll were the rest of you?
Is this some kind of joke? |
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Re: Important Lecture 7pm Wed. 151 Everitt |
by gehrig
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16 Oct 2003
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You know, I remember specifically putting down Tom Robbins' novel "Still Life With Woodpecker" two thirds of the way through, because I had decided that if I finished it I could no longer claim "The Fountainhead" was the worst novel I'd ever read. |
