How to Be an Earthly Idealist
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- by Don Watkins
Many are attracted to Objectivism for its idealism. But they often struggle to successfully use Objectivism as a guide for living on earth, and experience its ideals as a source of frustration, confusion, and guilt. In this talk, Don Watkins draws on his experience as Ayn Rand University’s Director of Coaching and Mentoring to discuss what gives rise to this problem-and practical strategies for overcoming it.
Recorded at OCON on July 2, 2023, in Miami, Florida.
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This was super useful to me. I've had issues with guilt, and I don't like my career, but I'm not sure in what to major in. Thank you so much, Don, for this conference. This will help me solve a ton of my inner conflicts.
Is this new? Don looks good!
It’s from last years OCON. So, no, not new.
@@ameyer1970it’s from 3 months ago. July, 2023.
@@ameyer1970It was this year’s OCON.
Good talk
32:20 Moving from duty to causality.
49:15 love it!
Belangrijke gedachtes:
- De objectivistische gêne wordt veroorzaakt door:
- We zijn niet de helden die we zouden moeten zijn, want
- Idealisme is het waarderen van jezelf als hoogste goed
Het probleem van waarde: Wat is het goede
- Duidelijke sterke persoonlijke waarden
- Ziellijk en passionele waarden
- Volg het niet als een religie: Denk niet: Hoe zou ik (moeten willen), maar: Wat doe ik (willen) (vermijdt plicht als de pest)
- Persoonlijke waarden moeten gevormd worden
- Door standaarden te zetten i.p.v. het minst slechtste te kiezen (bijv. met opdrachte mentor gedaan dit jaar)
- Ervaring is een belangrijke schakel
- Reflecteer daarna waarom je dingen wel en niet leuk vind om tot patronen en standaarden te komen.
Het probleem van deugd: Hoe om te gaan met morele perfectie
- Slecht doen komt door:
0 Het lijkt dat goed waardes weg neemt en slecht waarde op lijkt te leveren
0 Confronteer jezelf extra volledige gefocust op de feiten dat het niks oplevert (boek over slechte gevolgen lezen)
0 Of vraag jezelf af waarom je denkt dat er waarde in zit en waarom moraliteit niet wilt dat je het pakt & vice versa
- Hoe om te gaan met verdiende gêne
0 Niet jezelf als absoluut kwaad afschilderen
0 Je verontschuldigen voor wangedrag & afkeuren
0 Gêne is voor pad bijsturen
- 4 P's van trots
0 Hoe kon dit gebeuren en wat zal het teweegbrengen?
0 Beloof jezelf dit niet meer te doen
0 Maak een plan hiervoor
0 Laat het gêne gaan als het plan een patroon is
- Focus eerder op verbeteren op langere termijn (maand) dan de perfectie van een moment (dag)
- Gebruik moed om dat te bereiken wat je wilt bereiken
"I'm not going to let those bastards claim this Earth". Time on Target Award Winner
5:00 Yes!
Always check your premises.
33:00 chaining it together
Great video
I always said, "Philosophy is a goal, not a lifestyle."
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You achieve the goal through living a particular lifestyle.
This talk actually demonstrates the dividing line between Objectivists in terms of sexual morality. Those who have a standard of value and say that certain sexual choices are immoral qua the value standard; and those that think value is picking A over B and attempt to get away with saying that sex and morality are unrelated.
Ideal
Choices integration
Making moral perfection
Real
firsttt
first is worst, second is best :)
I am a Christian Capitalist.
Peace!
\o/
Philosophy can only suppose what the Truth already knows...
Stay free 🙏❤🇺🇲
lol you say philosophy is not a dogma yet that is exactly what objectivism is, a dogma and not a philosophy. It can't be criticized, it can't be improved upon and the most telling part is that you're not supposed to fully understand it unless you're a leader.
False. The two major organizations which promote Objectivism, ARI and The Atlas Society both have members who have criticized various ideas of Objectivism and advanced new ideas, especially ARI. Check the works and ideas of Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger, Tara Smith, Don Watkins, and more.
You may be confusing the idea of “closed” Objectivism with the idea of dogma, but that would be confusing the law of identity with dogma. Objectivism is what it is, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and thus obviously cannot change now that she is dead, but its ideas are constantly being explored, questioned, and tested against new evidence and ideas and given new applications and developed in new areas. A cursory glance at the works of people in these institutions, going back decades and recently, shows what you’re saying to be false.
Anyone can grasp it and criticize it and people are doing that all the time. Even within these organizations and in less formal groups of Objectivists online there is a ton of disagreement on numerous ideas and applications.
Be careful about conflating the objectivist movement with the philosophy of objectivism. Not the same thing. There are some prominent people and institutions that are dogmatic, but they are not the philosophy.
To call objectivism a dogma is like calling reality Hitler.
@@francescaerreia8859 Lets see if what you're saying holds any water, first what do you mean "closed", do you mean the core principles and concepts, or specifically what Ayn Rand said and wrote? It is well known that The Ayn Rand institute despises The Atlas Society for deviating from Ayn Rand and her writings, more specifically David Kelley, a former ARI member. They are not even in talking terms, so that is hardly an acceptance of criticism.
Second, can you name any criticisms and developments made by the people of ARI to objectivism? For example, I've read some of ARI's material, including Pickoff and they follow Ayn Rand to a tee. Maybe they've come with new ways of application, but obviously, that is not adding to the doctrine per se.
@@johngleue lol how do you know objectivism represents reality? Yeah questioning it is like questioning reality, right?