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The Page of Reason

Third Edition: Integrating 2600 Years of Rational Investigations

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Reality Integrated Reason

Eight-Parts in Eight-Pages

Part 5 is The Page

A Brain is Free. A Mind is Earned.

Orrin Smith

ThePageOfReason.com

Welcome to The Page of Reason

A sem­i­nal essay for the ratio­nal-self-inter­est of each able indi­vid­ual,

and for the cul­tures and civ­i­liza­tions that they will glo­ri­ous­ly enrich.

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The Great Persuasion

A par­tic­i­pa­to­ry project to enrich ratio­nal­i­ty,

with­in all cul­tures and civ­i­liza­tions, all around the Earth.

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The Declaration of Intent

From all of my life expe­ri­ence, from all knowl­edge that I have ever acquired from a mag­nif­i­cent array of gen­er­ous knowl­edge pre­de­ces­sors, I assert that Objectivist Principles are the only pos­si­ble prin­ci­ples, for inci­sive pur­suits of sur­vival, pros­per­i­ty, and hap­pi­ness, for all humans, all around the Earth. Within The Page of Reason, I will make my case.

The Preface

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Since the advent of primeval lan­guages, our human minds have been assault­ed by ever-more, ever-var­i­ous, ever-con­tra­dic­to­ry, irra­tional ideas. And, on count­less occa­sions through­out the ages, will­ful­ly cho­sen irra­tional ideas, con­cep­tu­al con­tra­dic­tions, employed to their final social con­clu­sions, have caused vast des­ti­tu­tion, destruc­tion, and death.

Our primeval natures will always be with us. However, irra­tional ideas are essen­tial­ly just sim­plis­tic con­cep­tu­al errors. They are just ideas that have become entan­gled with the per­sis­tent and per­ni­cious, primeval prin­ci­ple that Anything-Goes!

With great counter-destruc­tive effect, we are able to counter-assault primeval any­thing-goes ideas by care­ful­ly employ­ing our ratio­nal per­sua­sion skills. And it is only by such ratio­nal counter-assaults that we will ever become able to con­sis­tent­ly cul­ti­vate our pur­suits of hap­pi­ness.

Rationality has always been our dis­tinc­tive human attribute, our prin­ci­pal moral virtue, and our fun­da­men­tal tal­ent. Nevertheless, it has only been with­in the most recent 2600 years that we humans have actu­al­ly engaged in mean­ing­ful inves­ti­ga­tions of ratio­nal­i­ty. Thus, with­in the prodi­gious­ly long dura­tion of human his­to­ry, we have only just recent­ly begun to hone, pol­ish, and apply our ratio­nal knowl­edge and skills.

Why has this ratio­nal work only just recent­ly begun, and so slow­ly pro­gressed? For four pri­ma­ry rea­sons:

• Rationality’s impor­tance must first become rec­og­nized.
• Reason, rationality’s method of per­form­ing work, must then become employed.
• Reason is a set of vol­un­tary skills that can only become pro­gres­sive­ly mas­tered by punc­tu­at­ed focused work with­in indi­vid­ual human minds.
• Substantial knowl­edge trans­mit­tals have always depend­ed upon pro­gres­sive devel­op­ments with­in lit­er­ary and deliv­ery tech­nolo­gies.

It is only with­in indi­vid­ual human minds that rea­son­ing skills and con­cep­tu­al knowl­edge can exist and devel­op. However, at birth, our minds became formed absolute­ly devoid of such con­tent. Nevertheless, since our births, our minds have become slates, upon which, by choice, we can write and rewrite to the very end of our con­scious lives.

By my choice, for near­ly twelve years, I direct­ed my mind towards impor­tant, pur­pose­ful work:

• First: I worked hard to care­ful­ly inves­ti­gate, and to rea­son­ably assim­i­late, a very broad knowl­edge con­text.
• Second: Once I under­stood its cru­cial impor­tance, I then worked hard to acquire an inci­sive under­stand­ing of fun­da­men­tal ratio­nal knowl­edge.
• Third: Beginning with a lim­it­ed set of writ­ing skills, I then worked very hard to fur­ther devel­op, hone, and pol­ish those skills.
• Fourth: Within the punc­tu­at­ed process­es of pol­ish­ing those skills, I pro­duced The Page of Reason, the final pur­pose of which is to pre­cise­ly com­mu­ni­cate fun­da­men­tal ratio­nal knowl­edge to you, and to each oth­er able indi­vid­ual, on Earth.

Within The Page of Reason, I have done my utter best to com­mu­ni­cate the essen­tial facts and prin­ci­ples of fun­da­men­tal ratio­nal knowl­edge.

• For inci­sive pur­suits of sur­vival, pros­per­i­ty, and hap­pi­ness, on Earth, fun­da­men­tal ratio­nal knowl­edge is absolute­ly nec­es­sary.

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I invite you to now embark with me upon this brief great­est ever pos­si­ble adven­ture, and to then employ The Page of Reason, as a potent tool, with­in your own endur­ing great­est ever pos­si­ble adven­ture. You and I have much to dis­cuss: me with­in my ratio­nal text, you with­in your own ratio­nal mind.

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Copyright © 2020 Orrin Smith

The Page of Reason

Part 1 of 8: The Preliminary Introduction

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Some ages, brow did sweat.

Some pages, brow did whet.

From dust came pages, brow, and sweat.

And to dust they shall pay their debt.

But not, just, yet.

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Section 1: The Principal Themes

• Reason is the essen­tial tool for the sur­vival, pros­per­i­ty, and hap­pi­ness of each human indi­vid­ual.
• Objectivism is the phi­los­o­phy of real­i­ty inte­grat­ed rea­son.
• Each able indi­vid­ual, on Earth, would most cer­tain­ly ben­e­fit from an inci­sive under­stand­ing of Objectivism.
• Objectivism’s essen­tial facts and prin­ci­ples have been inci­sive­ly defined on a sin­gle page of about 2000 words (Part 5: The Page).

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Section 2: Reality Integrated Objectivist Principles:

The absolute­ly sub­lime, eas­i­ly under­stood, ratio­nal prin­ci­ples that are nec­es­sary for inci­sive pur­suits of sur­vival, pros­per­i­ty, and hap­pi­ness:

• Rational Reality and Knowledge •

• Rational Ethics, Virtues, and Rights •

• Rational Freedom, Liberty, Justice, and Government •

• Rational Artistic Purpose •

Philosophy is not a bauble of the intel­lect, but a pow­er from which no man can abstain. Anyone can say that he dis­pens­es with a view of real­i­ty, knowl­edge, the good, but no one can imple­ment this cre­do. The rea­son is that man, by his nature as a con­cep­tu­al being, can­not func­tion at all with­out some form of phi­los­o­phy to serve as his guide.

Peikoff, Leonard. Chapter 1, “Reality.” Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. New York: Meridian, 1993. Page 1, para­graph 1.

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Section 3: Reason, Integration, and Pursuits of Happiness

Reason is a set of vol­un­tary skills that can only become pro­gres­sive­ly mas­tered by punc­tu­at­ed focused work with­in indi­vid­ual human minds. And to inte­grate is to assem­ble valu­able parts into a non-con­tra­dic­to­ry pur­pose­ful whole. The pur­pose of non-con­tra­dic­to­ry rea­son is to inte­grate obser­va­tions of real­i­ty into non-con­tra­dic­to­ry knowl­edge; from non-con­tra­dic­to­ry knowl­edge, to inte­grate non-con­tra­dic­to­ry val­ues and judg­ments; and from those, to inte­grate non-con­tra­dic­to­ry actions.

Close eval­u­a­tions of knowl­edge, val­ues, judg­ments, and actions will dis­close that, to the degrees well-inte­grat­ed, they are ulti­mate­ly employed with­in pur­suits of hap­pi­ness. Moreover, it is from these inescapable facts of every­day life that the fab­ric of each individual’s life becomes com­posed.

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Section 4: Contradictions, Consequences, and Resolution

Throughout the ages, to achieve ben­e­fi­cial out­comes, humans have rearranged bits and pieces of cause-and-effect nat­ur­al real­i­ty. However, not being nature’s cre­ators, to achieve those cause-and-effect rearrange­ments, it has always been nec­es­sary for us to first grasp nature’s non-con­tra­dic­to­ry truths. And, just as non-con­tra­dic­to­ry rea­son ever has been our means to grasp those truths, it will ever be just so.

Nature is only to be com­mand­ed by obey­ing her.

Sir Francis Bacon. First Book, Aphorism 129. Novum Organum. 1620.

Within objec­tive real­i­ty, con­tra­dic­tions are not known to exist. However, with­in sub­jec­tive real­i­ty, con­cep­tu­al con­tra­dic­tions, irra­tional ideas, are cer­tain­ly known to exist. And ideas of all types do cause con­se­quences. At min­i­mum, they sim­ply con­sume pre­cious time. However, at worst, on count­less occa­sions through­out the ages, will­ful­ly cho­sen con­cep­tu­al con­tra­dic­tions, irra­tional ideas, employed to their final social con­clu­sions, have caused vast des­ti­tu­tion, destruc­tion, and death.

Excepting sim­ple acci­dents and sim­ple igno­rance, it is the ever-eva­sive, any­thing-goes nature of con­cep­tu­al con­tra­dic­tions that are the root caus­es of all human gen­er­at­ed tragedies. Ultimately, con­cep­tu­al con­tra­dic­tions can only become resolved by employ­ing non-con­tra­dic­to­ry rea­son, not by employ­ing fur­ther con­tra­dic­tions.

I present The Page of Reason, as a potent tool, for the res­o­lu­tion of con­cep­tu­al con­tra­dic­tions. Choices are required. Time and work are also required. However, this is not par­tic­u­lar­ly dif­fi­cult work. And it is vir­tu­al­ly guar­an­teed to become extra­or­di­nar­i­ly reward­ing and plea­sur­able work. Your choic­es. Your time. Your work. Your rewards. Your plea­sures. Reason is noble. Welcome. And I am pleased to meet you here.

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Section 5: Understanding The Page of Reason

The Initial Purpose: My work to com­pose The Page of Reason began with a burn­ing desire to ratio­nal­ly inte­grate, with­in my own mind, a broad range of impor­tant knowl­edge to which I had been apply­ing years of thought­ful study (p4, s4). Therefore, this is a com­po­si­tion of well-informed, prodi­gious­ly care­ful, inci­sive rea­son. However, I must here con­fess that my mind is just anoth­er lit­tle mind that has become a con­sid­er­able hob­gob­lin of fool­ish con­sis­ten­cy.

A fool­ish con­sis­ten­cy is the hob­gob­lin of lit­tle minds.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Self Reliance, in The Harvard Classics. New York: P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1937. Volume 5. Page 66.

From the very first page of my writ­ing, I employed a self-imposed one-page con­straint. I sensed a pur­pose­ful need to tai­lor a big mem­o­ry full of big ideas into a fash­ion­able hat of a con­sis­tent tex­ture and style that would com­fort­ably fit my own fool­ish lit­tle hob­gob­lin mind.

Moreover, also from the very first page, I employed the prin­ci­ple that I should com­pose in some form and style that would con­sis­tent­ly com­mu­ni­cate my ideas to you. If I could con­sis­tent­ly com­mu­ni­cate my ideas to you, then I would like­wise con­sis­tent­ly com­mu­ni­cate them to my own fool­ish lit­tle hob­gob­lin mind.

Oh Ralph, Ralph, Ralph Waldo! Take a hike! Slump along now, and hump your fool­ish, incon­sis­tent, mis­fit ideas into some stinky, slug-plumped swamp—somewhere, light-years away. Dump ‘em there. And then, sprint back to us—unburdened and refreshed.

The Long Project: I began com­pos­ing this text on October 15th of 2015 as a novice author who pos­sessed rea­son­ably well-devel­oped ver­bal lan­guage skills. However, I did not pos­sess any sig­nif­i­cant writ­ing expe­ri­ence, and I most def­i­nite­ly did not pos­sess the pre­cise lan­guage and com­po­si­tion­al knowl­edge and skills that were nec­es­sary to pro­duce this work. Therefore, I had to acquire, hone, and pol­ish much of that, and that work con­sumed con­sid­er­able dos­es of time and effort.

Judging it com­plete, I first pub­lished The Page of Reason on April 1st of 2016. However, I was then unable to restrain myself from author­ing fur­ther sub­stan­tial refine­ments. On July 4th, I called a final halt. Then, on August 15th, fol­low­ing numer­ous re-reads, I embarked once more! (Then, again, again, and again!)

For hun­dreds of days and hun­dreds of nights, no dry spell did I know,

For near­by did lay, and hot for a swipe, a dou­ble mug of joe!

Now final­ly, final­ly, it’s show time!

The Parts: I began com­pos­ing this text with Part 5, and com­posed Part 4 in par­al­lel with it. And, through­out my long writ­ing project, I worked assid­u­ous­ly to make those two parts easy to read, easy to under­stand, and inci­sive­ly accu­rate. However, my self-imposed one-page con­straints exclud­ed fur­ther, impor­tant and valu­able, infor­ma­tion and con­text. Therefore, once I had resolved to share Parts 4 and 5 with you, I then con­cur­rent­ly com­posed the addi­tion­al parts and sup­ple­ments.

• Part 5 con­sti­tutes an excep­tion­al­ly inde­pen­dent sub-essay. However, to estab­lish impor­tant con­text, the com­plete essay should first be read in sequen­tial order. Once that con­text has been estab­lished, then Part 5’s val­ue becomes great­ly enriched, and all oth­er parts and sup­ple­ments become sub­stan­tial­ly inde­pen­dent sub-essays.

The Razor: Part 5, Orrin’s Razor, con­cludes my four-year attempt to for­mu­late an utter­ly essen­tial, one-page, inci­sive def­i­n­i­tion of Objectivism. I am con­fi­dent that indi­vid­u­als who pos­sess sig­nif­i­cant pre­knowl­edge of Objectivism will find Part 5’s def­i­n­i­tion to be extra­or­di­nar­i­ly accu­rate and valu­able. However, in these respects, each Student of Objectivism must for­mu­late their own judg­ments. Nevertheless, I am absolute­ly con­fi­dent in assert­ing these three facts now:

• Objectivism is the present­ly unsur­passed cul­ti­va­tor of non-con­tra­dic­to­ry fun­da­men­tal ratio­nal knowl­edge.
• The Page of Reason, cou­pled with The Great Persuasion, is the present­ly unsur­passed cul­ti­va­tor of Objectivism.
• We can each choose to tur­bo-charge our own con­cep­tu­al minds: to there­by cul­ti­vate our own pur­suits of hap­pi­ness.

The Emotions: Though I am most def­i­nite­ly not an emo­tion­al­ist, each time that I have read through this text, I have expe­ri­enced impor­tant emo­tion­al respons­es. I can there­fore hon­est­ly tes­ti­fy that one’s con­sis­tent­ly ratio­nal engage­ments with rea­son, real­i­ty, and knowl­edge are not cold, dry, and remote.

Well-inte­grat­ed knowl­edge con­sis­tent­ly caus­es appro­pri­ate, noble, well-informed, and well-nuanced emo­tions. Value judg­ments con­sti­tute a con­se­quen­tial sub­set of our knowl­edge. And vig­or­ous­ly, sub­con­scious­ly, at light­ning fast speeds, our minds match our var­i­ous­ly direct­ed, var­i­ous­ly focused, lim­it­ed obser­va­tions with our pre­formed val­ue judg­ments, and there­by cause our emo­tions. (p5, s3, p10).

• Rational knowl­edge enrich­es and refines val­ue judg­ments, and there­by enrich­es and refines emo­tions.

Should you choose to read the com­plete essay, then know that I will be engag­ing in a no holds barred effort to com­mu­ni­cate to you: the essen­tial facts and prin­ci­ples of non-con­tra­dic­to­ry fun­da­men­tal ratio­nal knowledge—with all of the emo­tion­al pow­er that my fool­ish lit­tle hob­gob­lin mind can pos­si­bly muster.

The Final Purpose: Too often, our lives become swamped, by treach­er­ous assaults, of mul­ti­far­i­ous kinds, from copi­ous-cadres of death-wor­ship­ing, death-deal­ing, any­thing-goes mis­fits. Directly opposed to that, Objectivism inci­sive­ly iden­ti­fies, defines, and explains the only known full-set of non-con­tra­dic­to­ry fun­da­men­tal ratio­nal prin­ci­ples that are absolute­ly nec­es­sary to estab­lish ratio­nal order with­in each of our cul­tures and civ­i­liza­tions: for the life-enrich­ing ratio­nal-self-inter­est of each human indi­vid­ual.

Therefore, due to Objectivism’s unri­valed impor­tance, amongst all pos­si­ble earth­ly ideas, I absolute­ly intend that The Page of Reason become shared with each able indi­vid­ual, on Earth. Then, for each one, to read or not to read, that be the choice. To ascend to the moun­tain top or not, that also be a choice.

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Section 6: Interregnum:
Reproduction Rights

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The Page of Reason

Part 2 of 8: The Overview

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Nothing Can Be Rationally Known to Exist That Is
More Magnificent, More Important, or More Glorious
Than One’s Own Conceptual Mind.

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• Part 1: The Preliminary Introduction
  • Section 1: The Principal Themes
  • Section 2: Reality Integrated Objectivist Principles
  • Section 3: Reason, Integration, and Pursuits of Happiness
  • Section 4: Contradictions, Consequences, and Resolution
  • Section 5: Understanding The Page of Reason
  • Section 6: Interregnum: Reproduction Rights

• Part 3: About Orrin Smith and The Page of Reason
  • Section 1: Early Work History: Respect for End-to-End Evil-Force-Free Trade
  • Section 2: Early Education History: Moderate Achievements: Dribs and Drabs
  • Section 3: Intellectual Bedrock: Just Another Guy (With an Everyday Light!)
  • Section 4: Middle Professional History: Adept, Productive, and Respected
  • Section 5: April Fools’ Day of 2008: The Secret Plan: Blend Tasty Lemonade
  • Section 6: The Accomplishments: Yes! Yes! and a Vibrant Sprint-In-Progress!
  • Section 7: Show Time! A Superbly Blended Batch of Tasty Lemonade!

• Part 4: The Critical Introduction: A Discovery of Objectivism
  • Section 1: Objectivism and The Page
  • Section 2: Mastering Any Subject
  • Section 3: Mastering the Subject of Rational Philosophy
  • Section 4: The Sweat of His Brow: Orrin’s Great Big Rational Chew
  • Section 5: Comments on Key Objectivist Literature
  • Section 6: Table of Key Objectivist Literature (with brief com­ments)

• Part 5: Orrin’s Razor: His One Page Definition of Objectivism
  • Section 1: Rational Philosophy One: The Requirement: One Supremely Rational Concept
    • The Root: Reality: “What defines con­cep­tu­al real­i­ty?” Plus: Knowledge: “What defines con­cep­tu­al knowl­edge?” (An inex­tri­ca­bly inter­twined pair.)
    • The Trunk: Ethics: “What defines good indi­vid­ual judg­ment?”
    • The Branches: Politics: “What defines good social judg­ment?” And: Esthetics: “What is beau­ti­ful, wor­thy of admi­ra­tion, wor­thy of emu­la­tion?”

• • Section 2: Root: Rational Reality: “What Defines Conceptual Reality?”
    • Note: Within zero to absolute degrees of cer­tain­ty, our con­cep­tu­al minds pos­sess only real­i­ty per­spec­tives. And, to the degree that a con­cept is ratio­nal­ly valid, is ratio­nal­ly cer­tain, it is a fact. Ideas, propo­si­tions, sen­tences, etc. are inter­min­glings of con­cepts, each of which must pos­sess valid­i­ty.
    • Objectivism’s Three Axiomatic Concepts: The imme­di­ate­ly observ­able, mutu­al­ly inte­grat­ed, and ratio­nal­ly irrefutable, human real­i­ty per­spec­tives.
      • Existence: The human uni­ver­sal, spher­i­cal real­i­ty per­spec­tive.
      • Identity 1: The human dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing real­i­ty per­spec­tive.
      • Identity 2: The human cause-and-effect real­i­ty per­spec­tive.
      • Consciousness: The human iden­ti­fi­ca­tion real­i­ty per­spec­tive. Plus: Objectivism’s Primacy of Existence Corollary.

• • Section 3: Root: Rational Knowledge: “What Defines Conceptual Knowledge?”
    • 1. Percepts: The orig­i­nal raw data: for all high­er-ani­mals.
    • 2. Concepts: Possible knowl­edge: for human high­er-ani­mals, only.
    • 3. Percept Range: From an indi­vid­ual human mind’s all-inclu­sive iso­la­tion to its poten­tial tur­bo-charg­ing from civ­i­liza­tions’ rich intel­lec­tu­al lega­cies.
    • 4. Concept Power: Concepts pack evolv­ing knowl­edge with­in files that are named by sin­gle sym­bol­ic words, there­by empow­er­ing indi­vid­ual humans with gar­gan­tu­an advan­tages.
    • 5. Genesis: A brief inte­gra­tion of the pre­ced­ing ratio­nal prin­ci­ples with impor­tant ratio­nal pro­gres­sions: the gen­e­sis of ratio­nal knowl­edge.
    • 6. Validity: The roots of valid con­cepts reside exclu­sive­ly with­in non-con­tra­dic­to­ry objec­tive real­i­ty.
    • 7. Just Knowing: By spew­ing tur­bu­lent clouds of smoke and fog, mem­o­ry fac­to­ries sub­tly fuel alleged forms of “just know­ing.”
    • 8. Language: Language is pri­mar­i­ly a tool of rea­son, only sec­on­dar­i­ly of com­mu­ni­ca­tion.
    • 9. Emotions 1: Their three impor­tant func­tions: attach­ment, report­ing, and moti­va­tion.
    • 10. Emotions 2: Their one essen­tial cause: obser­va­tions matched with pre­formed val­ue judg­ments.

• • Section 4: Trunk: Rational Ethics: “What Defines Good Individual Judgment?”
    • 1. Irrationality: Irrationality is the prin­ci­pal root cause of human gen­er­at­ed tragedies.
    • 2. Judgment Tree: Root: indi­vid­ual human life; trunk: virtues; branch­es and leaves: sub­or­di­nat­ed val­ues, laws, rules, and options.
    • 3. Virtues: The trunk of impor­tant, life-enrich­ing, and root inte­grat­ed prin­ci­pal moral val­ues for good judg­ment guid­ance.

• • Section 5: Branch: Rational Politics: “What Defines Good Social Judgment?”
    • 1. Rights: Rights con­sti­tute the bridge between ethics and actions with­in social con­texts: indi­vid­ual rights to employ evil-force-free, life-enrich­ing actions. Plus: Delegated, restrict­ed, group rights.
    • 2. Evil-Force: Any human gen­er­at­ed force that is aimed towards abro­gat­ing any valid, non-self-abro­gat­ed, indi­vid­ual human right is a strict­ly pro­hib­it­ed anti-right.
    • 3. Government: Its only source, pur­pose, and oblig­a­tion: indi­vid­ual rights. Its only meth­ods: civ­il adju­di­ca­tion and retal­ia­to­ry force jus­tice.

• • Section 6: Branch: Rational Esthetics: “What Is Beautiful, Worthy of Admiration, Worthy of Emulation?”
    • Artistic Purpose: Weaving affir­ma­tions, inspi­ra­tions, and moti­va­tions for bound­less evil-force-free pur­suits of sur­vival, pros­per­i­ty, and hap­pi­ness.

• • Section 7: Rational Philosophy Two: The Delivery: One Supremely Rational Concept
    • Reality Integrated Incisive Reason: The only pos­si­ble razor for valid­ly cul­ti­vat­ing knowl­edge, val­ues, judg­ments, and actions.
    • Reality Integrated Objectivist Principles: The sub­lime, nec­es­sary, and eas­i­ly under­stood ratio­nal prin­ci­ples for sur­vival, pros­per­i­ty, and hap­pi­ness.
    • Objectivism: The only known inde­struc­tible map to ratio­nal human life.

• Part 6: The Critical Analysis: Objectivism in Context
  • Section 1: Objectivism in Knowledge Context: About Concept Definitions
  • Section 2: Objectivism in Historic Context: Our Fundamental Axiomatic Race
  • Section 3: Objectivism in Learning Context: Incisively Cognizing Objectivism

• Part 7: Rational Knowledge Resources
  • Section 1: Time and Choice
  • Section 2: Objectivism: Key Objectivist Literature
  • Section 3: Objectivism: Ayn Rand: The Philosopher
  • Section 4: Objectivism: Dr. Leonard Peikoff: Ayn Rand’s Chosen Heir
  • Section 5: Objectivism: The Objective Standard
  • Section 6: Objectivism: The Page of Reason
  • Section 7: The Great Courses: The Deep Well-Chewed News
  • Section 8: The Great Courses: A Vibrant Foundational Enrichment
  • Section 9: The Great Courses: A Broad Knowledge Context
  • Section 10: The Great Courses: A Vast Conceptual Hierarchy of History
  • Section 11: Objectivism: A Brief Nomination of Additional Virtues

• Part 8: John Galt, God, Jesus, Candide, and The Huckleberrys!
  • Section 1: The Irrational Nightmare: Ghosts and Zombies Galore!
  • Section 2: Interregnum: Betwixt the Nightmare and the Dream
  • Section 3: The Rational Dream: Your Very Own Noble Prize
  • Section 4: And Thank You for Reasoning

• Supplement 1: The Great Persuasion

• Supplement 2: The Afterword and The Postscripts

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• • • What’s in your phi­los­o­phy? • • •

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The Page of Reason

The Supplement Overviews

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Supplement 1: The Great Persuasion

• Section 1: Introduction
• Section 2: Apocalyptic Conclusions
• Section 3: Context Keeping
• Section 4: Capitalism and Politics
• Section 5: Squawking with Great Parrots 1: A Jeremiad for Justice (squawks includ­ed)
• Section 6: Squawking with Great Parrots 2: The Great Parrot High-Brow Squawks
• Section 7: Squawking with Great Parrots 3: Our Middle-Brow Goldsmith Counter-Squawks
• Section 8: Saturday Night Knockdown! Able Reason vs. Killer Cain! — Round xxx⁹⁹⁹
• Section 9: Our Big Cosmos Cause-and-Effect Reality
• Section 10: The Mega-Legions of Middle-Brow Goldsmiths
• Section 11: Our usa Project
• Section 12: Our usa Sub-Projects
• Section 13: Rational-Self-Interest Service Fees
• Section 14: Our Progressive Conquests of Evil
• Section 15: Glimmering Pearls and Gems
• Section 16: I Rest My Case

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Supplement 2: The Afterword

• Ayn Rand: The Philosopher
• Dr. Leonard Peikoff: Ayn Rand’s Chosen Heir
• The Page of Reason: Three Important Seeds of Its Inception

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Supplement 2: The Postscripts

Postscripts are brief def­i­n­i­tions, com­men­taries, and remarks on the fol­low­ing sub­jects.

• Objectivism and Objectivists
• Objectivist Thunder
• Abet
• Abrogate
• Action and Reason
• Ad Hominem
• Anchors
• Archimedes
• Autodidact
• Bonus Benefits
• Candides and Huckleberrys
• Collective Knowledge
• Collectivism
• Concepts 1: Evolution
• Concepts 2: Pictures
• Concepts 3: Power
• Corruption
• Early Education
• Earnings
• Egoism vs. Egotism
• Emotions 1: Ill-Judged
• Emotions 2: Evidence
• Evolve
• Explicit vs. Implicit
• Fire-and-Forget
• Frauds
• Genius
• Government: Intellectual Discourse
• Gray Knowledge
• Happiness
• Historical vs. Historic
• Huckleberry
• Huckleberry Capitalist
• Human Products
• Humans and Nature
• Incisive
• Initiate
• Knowledge
• Knowledge Formation
• Objective vs. Subjective
• Original Document
• Orrin’s Great Big Rational Chew
• Parrots 1: Definitions
• Parrots 2: Masks
• Perpetrate
• Politics 1: Ideologies
• Politics 2: Pursuits of Happiness
• Primeval 1
• Primeval 2: Humans
• Primeval 3: Languages
• Punctuated Study
• Reason
• Richard Halley
• Rights
• Sanction
• Valid
• Value
• Vast Destitution, Destruction, and Death
• Vibrant
• Virtue
• Wealth 1: Material
• Wealth 2: Rational
• Willful Evasions
• Smoke and Fog

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• • • Welcome to the Age of Persuasion. • • •

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