You don't know what sour is until the mind defines what sweet is. I was happy when I was young because I had no idea of success and thus no idea of failure. Nothing is good or bad but thought makes it so.
Not true at all. Drink poison or drop a heavy rock on your dominant hand, if your motivation is to cause yourself pain, and you value self destruction then yes, the pain will be perceived as good but it is not objectively good for an organism to destroy itself. Have you ever heard of a suicidal tree or a self-destructive lion? Only humans are able to move in the direction of their own destruction, which is objectively an unsuccessful state of living. Anyone who tells you there is no good or bad basically doesn't give a damn about you or your life. It makes you the perfect subject for control.
The Q&A questions about the extent of reasoning for concrete situations are implicitly mystical. Their context is knowledge beyond ones own mind. The mind is fallible and even a rational philosophy does not provide automatic success. And there is no practical alternative. Mans life requires accepting the risk of knowledge. Man must do the best he can. And that best has produced our scientific-industrial-capitalist civilization and Objectivism. The alternative is not between mysticism and subjectivism. The alternative is between reason and evasion. Each individual must do the best he can. There is no alternative. Maybe, in some future Objectivist culture, with large numbers of Objectivist philosophers working on this problem, there will be discovered a principle for understanding these very concrete problems. But not now. Do the best you can. Focus on your power to do the best you can.
Jeff Bezos of Google advises the courage to make mistakes. Alex Epstein of Human Development Project says that sometimes do 80% of your goal and then improve upon that.
The thing is..we are not machines. We are not flaweless randian heros. We are in possession of a flawed vehical and our biochemistry does make things much more complicated..irrational feelings will always find the way
@@sankaranunni1607 parsing thoughts and emotions for truth is searching for fallacies in a flawed system... I can explain it but you probably won't understand from a RUclips comment. Essentially, personal experience is the only proof of anything... what are you using as metrics for your objectivity..?
@@glennjohn3824 >personal experience is the only proof of anything Proof logically links ideas and concretes. Philosophy studies common human experience, of which individuals have personal experience, ie, man facing the universe. Objectivity is the focused mind. Thoughts are abstractions from perceptions of concretes. Your use of personal experience reduces to emotion unless you reason about it.
Oh man... Tara just gets better and better, huh? Thanks, Tara.
She's a planetary treasure.
A total gas! (old school argot for GOAT) @@julitocefe
Indeed, she does!
Such a thorough, useful presentation of applying objectivity to your life’s success!
The ol' get stuff to be happy philosophy. Howz that working out in a world moved by entropy?
Thank you for this conference, Tara! This will help me with some internal conflicts that I have right now.
Tara's always terrific value. Great lecture.
Really enjoyed listening. Objectivism is explained beautifully.
Objectivity all time.
The most reasonable choice. :)
The only rational choice.
The only good value. @@lukeasacher
You don't know what sour is until the mind defines what sweet is. I was happy when I was young because I had no idea of success and thus no idea of failure. Nothing is good or bad but thought makes it so.
Not true at all. Drink poison or drop a heavy rock on your dominant hand, if your motivation is to cause yourself pain, and you value self destruction then yes, the pain will be perceived as good but it is not objectively good for an organism to destroy itself. Have you ever heard of a suicidal tree or a self-destructive lion? Only humans are able to move in the direction of their own destruction, which is objectively an unsuccessful state of living.
Anyone who tells you there is no good or bad basically doesn't give a damn about you or your life. It makes you the perfect subject for control.
A friend w/an MS in philosophy says things always take twice as long as you think they will.
_Paths Of Wisdom_ by Aristotelian, John Cooper, is a study of ancient philosophy as a guide to life. Its very scholarly.
Pursuits of Wisdom?
The Q&A questions about the extent of reasoning for concrete situations are implicitly mystical. Their context is knowledge beyond ones own mind. The mind is fallible and even a rational philosophy does not provide automatic success. And there is no practical alternative. Mans life requires accepting the risk of knowledge. Man must do the best he can. And that best has produced our scientific-industrial-capitalist civilization and Objectivism. The alternative is not between mysticism and subjectivism. The alternative is between reason and evasion. Each individual must do the best he can. There is no alternative. Maybe, in some future Objectivist culture, with large numbers of Objectivist philosophers working on this problem, there will be discovered a principle for understanding these very concrete problems. But not now. Do the best you can. Focus on your power to do the best you can.
Jeff Bezos of Google advises the courage to make mistakes. Alex Epstein of Human Development Project says that sometimes do 80% of your goal and then improve upon that.
Objectivity: focus your mind. Be logical. An unfocused mind can't be logical.
Would objective law impose speed limits and require driving licenses, vehicle safety checks and accident insurance?
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The thing is..we are not machines. We are not flaweless randian heros. We are in possession of a flawed vehical and our biochemistry does make things much more complicated..irrational feelings will always find the way
Who said we are machines? Irrational feelings don't determine our actions, that's why I didn't eat any biscuits today.
Even the most Randiest conflate subjective and objective reality because objectivism is mathematics without the zero... incomplete philosophy.
!!! care to explain that?
@@sankaranunni1607 parsing thoughts and emotions for truth is searching for fallacies in a flawed system... I can explain it but you probably won't understand from a RUclips comment. Essentially, personal experience is the only proof of anything... what are you using as metrics for your objectivity..?
Word Salad and logical fallacy @@glennjohn3824
@@glennjohn3824 Thats a good enough answer to get smeome started if truly interested.
@@glennjohn3824 >personal experience is the only proof of anything
Proof logically links ideas and concretes. Philosophy studies common human experience, of which individuals have personal experience, ie, man facing the universe. Objectivity is the focused mind. Thoughts are abstractions from perceptions of concretes. Your use of personal experience reduces to emotion unless you reason about it.