The YouTube Objectivists Group

Introduction to the YouTube Group, "Objectivists". Who's welcome, who's not, what's welcome, what's not. How to join, how to post.

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• Ayn
• Rand
• Objectivist
• Objectivism

[blujesus]

a...collective ...of Objectivists

[PaulMcKeever]

...a collective only in the sense of a number of independently thinking individuals who have acknowledged the facts of reality. Incidentally: Rand called her circle of objectivist friends "the collective"...as a lark, no doubt.

[PaulMcKeever]

Apologies in advance to Objectivists whose channels I neglected to mention in the video including, as a particularly glaring example, qtronman.

[AtheistAaron]

Nice bookend on that vid, Paul.

I have submitted my account to be added to the group. Although I cannot call myself an Objectivist per se, I have leanings in that direction and much respect for Ms. Rand's work and ideas.

[PaulMcKeever]

Well, as I see it, the Objectivists group is not only for Objectivists, but for people interested in Objectivism and/or Ayn Rand, so that's just fine. Thanks for the thumbs up on the bookend.

[TheGreatestGreatApe]

Hey, I'm in your group :) . I like the philosophy, but I am not an Objectivist. I consider myself mostly objective with a lower case "o" on purpose of course. I made some clearifications to Sw33tLiberty who was given an out of context article. She closed her account, I dunno why. This is the video if you think it's worth anything anymore: watch?v=8yldot-wjO8

[PaulMcKeever]

She closed her facebook account too. My understanding is that she is trying to avoid distractions while working at university. She'll be missed. Hopefully she'll post again.

[1studentoftruth]

For 20 years, since the age of 4, I was a christian. Then I became an atheist in a months time. For 3 months or so between that transition, I fancied myself a premature socialist, or junior revolutionary, in hopes of restoring an objective morality in humanity, which was I came to find, non-existence. I read Atlas shrugged, gassed up by an insane conspiracy from John Todd. It has the opposite effect. Since then I have read 4 ayn rand books, and it's changing perspective on life. I am John Galt.

[hollrahd]

I was watching a video of Christopher Hitchens and he mentions that he believes objectivism to be a cult. I thought this was very strange, seeing as he is a very rational man. I don't see how any rational person could dispute Ayn Rand's logic. Any thoughts on this?

[MagisterPridgen]

@hollrahd Hitchens also used to be a communist, so although he is very intelligent he's obviously not infallible. Most intellectuals don't want to be thought of as authorities anyways, as arguments from authority are logical fallacies.

[ankneymichael]

Heavily bound under the Objectivist banner. As if that is a real burden. For the most part I am operating under the idea that i am protecting the epistemological theory that will inevitably determine the fate of civilization, the course of every individual life, of empires, of science, of art, of the nation. Honest.

[alanoasiss]

I'm in. I'm an Ayn Rand reader.

[clubsandwedge]

Good that you're interested but I'm also a beginner on the topic so I'd best refer you to a couple sources in case my explanations fall short. First, I would recommend 'the Ayn Rand lexicon' website which will be of great importance to you in your explorations. Next, I recommend, 'An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 2nd edition' by Rand. Lastly, I'd scour through some of Leonard Peikoff's work as he probably has the greatest knowledge of the epistemology of Objectivism of anyone alive

[clubsandwedge]

Objectivism would be closer to Aristotle than Plato in terms of realism but Rand states that concepts themselves exist epistemologically and are objectively ways of viewing metaphysically existing relationships.

[clubsandwedge]

Concept formation consists of measurement omission. To come up with the concept 'triangle' one must accept that the line size and spatial arrangement be arbitrary within a given range (there must be three connected straight lines), ie omit the measurements of the angles and sizes of the sides, one says 'the characteristics (angle & line size) must exist in some quality, but may exist in any quality. In the case of the concept 'shape' the omitted measurement is the number of sides.

[clubsandwedge]

Rand viewed consciousness in the following hierarchy, sensations, percepts, concepts. Sensations are considered to be a subset of percepts and are essentially meaningless. Percepts are discovering the nature or identity of things through their attributes. Concepts are the way we view the existing relationships between entities by means of observing differences in attributes and categorising them in terms of similarities.

[williampinn]

Ayn Rand is one of my favorites! However, I am having trouble finding any info about joining a group on youtube.  Links?

[kingazzaman]

clicked on this by accident.

Good. I was having trouble sleeping....zzzz