Justin Mallone

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Rationalism and Empiricism, Part 2

Second post on the eighth chapter in Leonard Peikoff's book "Understanding Objectivism", "Rationalism and Empiricism".

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Rationalism and Empiricism, Part 1

Post on the eighth chapter in Leonard Peikoff's book "Understanding Objectivism", "Rationalism and Empiricism".

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Rationalism, Part 3

Third post on the seventh chapter in Leonard Peikoff's book "Understanding Objectivism", "Rationalism".

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Rationalism, Part 2

Second post on the seventh chapter in Leonard Peikoff's book "Understanding Objectivism", "Rationalism".

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Rationalism, Part 1

Post on the seventh chapter in Leonard Peikoff's book "Understanding Objectivism", "Rationalism".

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Objectivism Versus the Intrinsic and Subjective, Part 3

Third post in a series on the sixth chapter in Leonard Peikoff's book "Understanding Objectivism", "Objectivism Versus the Intrinsic and Subjective"

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Objectivism Versus the Intrinsic and Subjective, Part 2

Second post in a series on the sixth chapter in Leonard Peikoff's book "Understanding Objectivism", "Objectivism Versus the Intrinsic and Subjective"

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Objectivism Versus the Intrinsic and Subjective, Part 1

Post on the sixth chapter in Leonard Peikoff's book "Understanding Objectivism", "Objectivism Versus the Intrinsic and Subjective"

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The Hierarchy of Objectivism, Part 2

Second post in a series on the fifth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", “The Hierarchy of Objectivism”.

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The Hierarchy of Objectivism, Part 1

Post on the fifth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", “The Hierarchy of Objectivism”.

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Force and Rights, Part 2

Part 2 of a series of posts on the fourth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Force and Rights".

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Force and Rights, Part 1

Part 1 of a series of posts on the fourth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Force and Rights".

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Honesty, Importance of Principles, Part 3

Part 3 of a series of posts on the third chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Honesty, Importance of Principles"

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Honesty, Importance of Principles, Part 2

Part 2 of a series of posts on the third chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Honesty, Importance of Principles"

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Honesty, Importance of Principles, Part 1

Part 1 of a series of posts on the third chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Honesty, Importance of Principles".

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The Ayn Rand Institute Is Bad

Came across a Charles Tew video where Yaron Brook negatively comments on Tew and Tew responds. Around the 12 minute mark, Tew says that the Ayn Rand Institute has a negative attitude towards idealistic young people who want to be independent intellectuals. Their attitude is "Who are you? You're not

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Life as the Standard of Value, Part 2 - Dialog on Connecting Concepts to Reality

Dialog on the second chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", “Life as the Standard of Value”.

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Life as the Standard of Value, Part 1

Post on the second chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", “Life as the Standard of Value”.

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The Role of Philosophy, Part 3 - Dialog

Part 3 of a series of posts on the first chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "The Role of Philosophy".

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The Role of Philosophy, Part 2

Part 2 of a series of posts on the first chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "The Role of Philosophy".

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The Role of Philosophy, Part 1

Part 1 of a series of posts on the first chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "The Role of Philosophy".

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Some Thoughts on Drizzt Book

Some thoughts on Homeland (The Legend of Drizzt Book 1) (a fantasy book about a Dark Elf named Drizzt who is morally different than most other Dark Elves due to being decent/compassionate/kind.) Dark Elf society basically says that if you get away with destroying an enemy Dark Elf

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Resentment for Not Being Broken

From Homeland (The Legend of Drizzt Book 1) (a fantasy series about a Dark Elf named Drizzt who is morally different than most other Dark Elves) “He does not belong;’ Masoj replied grimly. “After six months by his side, I feel I know him less now than I ever did.

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Blog Post Plans

I’m liking Understanding Objectivism a lot and finding it useful for thinking about and dealing with my own issues. I’m planning on working my way through the book and continuing to write blog posts about it. I jumped ahead towards the end for my first couple of series

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Intellectual Honesty, Part 6

Part 6 of a series on the eleventh chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Intellectual Honesty".