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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.

The Great Persuasion

A par­tic­i­pa­to­ry project to enrich ratio­nal­i­ty,

with­in all cul­tures and civ­i­liza­tions, all around the Earth.

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

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 very slow­ly pro­gressed? For four pri­ma­ry rea­sons:

  • Rationality’s impor­tance must first become rec­og­nized.
  • Rational skills, rea­son­ing skills, rationality’s meth­ods of per­form­ing work, must then become employed.
  • Rational skills are 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 ratio­nal skills and con­cep­tu­al knowl­edge can exist and devel­op. However, at birth, our minds became formed absolute­ly devoid of such con­tent. Nevertheless, since those 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.

If, if, if human life, on Earth, is our dear­ly trea­sured val­ue, then our need for fun­da­men­tal ratio­nal knowl­edge is tru­ly dire. And, for inci­sive pur­suits of sur­vival, pros­per­i­ty, and hap­pi­ness, it is absolute­ly nec­es­sary.

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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The Page of Reason

Part 1 of 8: The Preliminary Introduction

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.

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).

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.

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 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.

Section 4: Contradictions, Consequences, and Resolution

Upon care­ful analy­sis, con­tra­dic­tions, irra­tional­i­ties, are not known to exist exter­nal to human con­scious­ness. However, with­in human con­scious­ness, con­tra­dic­tions are known to exist. And ideas 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.

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! (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, I have nev­er been able to read through this text once with­out expe­ri­enc­ing sig­nif­i­cant emo­tions. 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).

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.

  • Reason does not abro­gate emo­tions. It enrich­es them.

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.

Section 6: Interregnum:
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The Page of Reason

Part 2 of 8: The Overview

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

  • 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 ratio­nal­ly observ­able, non-con­tra­dic­to­ry 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

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

 

The Page of Reason

The Supplement Overviews

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 Fee Payments
  • Section 14: Our Progressive Conquests of Evil
  • Section 15: Glimmering Pearls and Gems
  • Section 16: I Rest My Case

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

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: Abstractions
  • Concepts 2: Evolution
  • Concepts 3: Pictures
  • Concepts 4: Power
  • Corruption
  • Definitions
  • Early Education
  • Earnings
  • Egoism
  • Egotism
  • Egoism vs. Egotism
  • Emotions 2: Evidence
  • Evolve
  • Explicit vs. Implicit
  • Fire-and-Forget
  • Frauds
  • Genius
  • Government: Intellectual Discourse
  • Gray Knowledge
  • Historical and Historic
  • Huckleberry
  • Huckleberry Capitalist
  • Human Products
  • Humans and Nature
  • Incisive
  • Initiate
  • Knowledge
  • Knowledge Formation
  • 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
  • Rational Persuasion
  • 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

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