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Autonomist Philosophy Series
"What Philosophy Is This?" A very brief introduction to the Autonomist Philosophy Series.
With Reference to Objectivism A brief discussion of the relationship of the Autonomist philosophy and the philosophy of Ayn Rand.
Introduction to Metaphysics An introduction to the basic questions and concepts of metaphysics.
Metaphysics—Part 1 Identifying the really real reality. Metaphysics proper.
Metaphysics—Part 2 The Categorical Hierarchy of Existence.
Objectives of Ontology An overview of what this ontology intends to accomplish, with some ground rules for what constitutes a correct ontology. It includes some important questions ontology must answer.
Basic Principles of Ontologyy The foundational concepts of ontology.
Ontological Hierarchy of Differentiation (OHD) Introduction and general description of the ultimate or primary qualities of existence in terms of which all other qualities and characteristics of all existence can be desribed and understood. Includes three additional parts.
(OHD1) Postion, Motion, and Acceleration.
(OHD2) Life.
(OHD3) Consciousness and Volition.
Answers to the Ontological Questions Answers all the questions raised in Objectives of Ontology based on the principles delineated in the Hierarchy.
Feelings A brief explanation of what emotions are, their nature and place in our philosophical understanding of human nature and values.
Desires A brief explanation of what desires are, their nature and place in our philosophical understanding of human nature.
Consciousness The Metaphysical Nature of Perception.
Perception The Validity of Perceptual Evidence.
Qualities The nature of qualities and there relationship to both ontology and epistemology.
Introduction to Concepts The Building Blocks of Knowledge.
Concepts—Simple The Basic Principles and Nature of Concepts.
Appendix 1—Qualities The relationship qualities to metaphysics and epistemology, and categories of qualities.
Ayn RandTop
Facets of Ayn Rand A brief introduction to Mary Ann and Charles Sures' charming and personal book, Facets of Ayn Rand, available, free online.
The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics: The Case Against the Brandens A review and thorough analysis of James S. Valliant's The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics: The Case Against the Brandens.
Ayn Rand's Mistake A brief history of Ayn Rand's aborted attempt to promote an individualist movement. A method she later repudiated.
Ayn Rand and Christianity A Christian's decent critique of Rand's ethics, and clearing up some mis
Culture, Society, PoliticsTop
Critical Thinking about Critical Thinking The true nature of so-called "critical thinking." The corruption of language that puts over the leftist agenda.
Conservatives' Perennial Mistake: Why They Will Always Lose—And Ought To Why abortion must never be a political issue.
The DEA and You Even if you never have anything to do with drugs, you are still a victim of DEA oppression.
New Hampshire Cures Global Warming A satirical look at New Hampshire's absurd climate change legislation.
What Does It All Mean? More absurdities from the world of academia and climate change.
CPS Threat to You and Your Children Literal horrors of "Child Protective Services," the most vicious of child abductors and abusers—a government protected criminal class.
Scandal and Denial at NASA An example of the typical persecution and thuggery heaped on anyone who raises legitimate scientific questions about climate-change orthodoxy.
Live Forever Smoking may kill you—by the time you are 122.
Milk—Another Controlled Substance What do Cocaine, Marihuana, and Milk have in common? They are all controlled substances and if you sell them the government can put you in jail and confiscate your property.
There's More Cuckoo In Switzerland Than Their Clocks More Environmental Wackiness—saving daisies from beheading.
An Uncivilized People TSA invasion of privacy
The SEA A Sign of Very Bad Things to Come—American's growing toleration for oppression and invasion of privacy.
Losing Freedom More TSA outrageous oppression.
Dear President Obama A satirical solution to Obama's enforcement manpower shortage.
Freedom and PrivacyTop
Freedom vs. Government Aristotle's and Rand's mistake about government and society.
The Price of Freedom True freedom requires personal responsibility in everything—a price most are unwilling to pay.
Making Yourself Free If you are waiting for some movement, some government, or anyone else to make you free, you will never be free.
Freedom Methods that Won't Work If you are going to be free, no movement, no organization or agency, and no program is going to make you free.
Making Lots of Money Individualist are sometimes naive about money, but here is the only way to make it.
What Is Freedom Most people think they want freedom, but do not know what it really is. If they did, they wouldn't want it.
Offshore Banking Some resources for individualists considering offshore bank accounts.
The Price of Your Freedom The riskiness and cost of true freedom and what you must do to gain it.
Frugalista Another "medod" for achieving personal freedom suggested by Wendy McElroy.
The Invasion of Your Privacy: By Almost Everyone Who is invading your privacy and how do they do it.
Internet Privacy Tools and resources for maintaining your Internet privacy.
Gun FreedomTop
"District of Columbia versus Heller" versus Gun Rights The principles evaded by those who mistakenly believe the decision in "District of Columbia versus Heller" was a victory for gun rights.
Guns, Security, and the Three Ps Why your politicians can, with a straight face, describe how they are going to violate your privacy, your property, and your person and do those things to provide you security.
Why Did it Have to be ... Guns? L. Neil Smith's article showing why guns are the test of freedom.
IndividualismTop
Atlas Shrugged: A Model for Individualist Revolution An individualist revolution is not an organized or violent revolution, but the result to individuals choosing to live in the only way they are willing to live.
Ayn Rand—Autonomist Individualism, not philosophy and certainly no political view was purpose and aim of all Rand's works.
Individualism—Not Objectivism Individualism is not a philosophy and no philosophy can produce individualists.
Saving The World The purpose of philosophy is not to save the world, and all such movements are the source of the worst horrors on this planet.
What Is an Individualist Anyone can be an individualist, but it is a personal choice, and the only way of living a truly human life.
Hated—The Individualist In a Collectivist World Why individualists are always hated, as Rand said, it is "hatred of the good for being the good."
Love and Hate at First Sight Why and how good and evil are recognized and by whom.
Ayn Rand's Mistake A brief history of Ayn Rand's aborted attempt to promote an individualist movement. A method she later repudiated.
Islam, TerrorismTop
Islamic Maggots--Part 1 Islam is not a vital and dangerous threat, but an opportunistic and parasitic infestation.
Islamic Maggots--Part 2 Why Islam, without any power of its own, can infest countries like the USA.
Terrorism You are over 20 times more likely to be struck by lightening than you are to be a victim of airline terrorism. Perhaps we need an LSA (Lightening Security Agency).
Old Autonomist ArticlesTop
Basic Ideas Basic principles of reason and autonomy.
Bill of Rights Bill of rights from the Constitution of the United States of America.
What's Wrong with Humanism A critical look at the pseudo-philosophy, Humanism, which is a subtle socialist-collectivist ideology meant to replace religion.
July 4 Declaration The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies.
Liberty or Death Patrick Henry's, March 23, 1775, "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death," speech.
Medicine Science and pseudo-science in medicine.
Philosophy (Rand) Address To The Graduating Class Of The United States Military Academy at West Point-"Who Needs Philosophy."
Proof Proving the proof is not only possible, but ubiquitous.
Religion (satire) A semi-serious description of the major religions.
Science (critique) True nature of science and how pseudo-science came to dominate much of it.
Truth & Superstition The nature of truth and why superstition dominates most peoples bliefs and thinking.
What is Philosophy The true nature and necessity of philosophy.
What is Superstition A description of the true nature of superstition.
Philosophy, GeneralTop
Autonomist's Notebook The Autonomist's Notebook is a semi-satirical collection of aphorisms, epigrams, and comments on politics, philosophy, and religion. Every entry has an associated extensive commentary.
Fallacies Exhaustive list of formal and informal fallacies.
Life About the nature of life, and answers to numerous questions.
Descent Into Postmodernist Hell A conversation with a man whose mind was destroyed by academia.
Cultural Marxist Revolution of the West A fourteen part series on the cultural destruction of Western Civilization—and growing.
Racism and Anti-Semitism A seven part series dissecting the true nature of racism which is much more pervasive than believed.
Assaults on Reality and Knowledge The assaults on reality and knowledge in all intellectual spheres of the day that have turned the minds of men to mush.
The Right Way to Do the Wrong Thing Government failure and looking to government to solve all things.
Caves, Mines, and Social Engineering—An Analogy Why social-engineering must always be a failure.
Disorder, Chaos, and Existence On the nature of order and that disorder with is chaos, the creative power of the world.
Social Chaos—Part I Why "law and order" are not the basis of a successful society.
Social Chaos—Part II Social engineering, by means of laws, kills a society.
Social Chaos—Part III Criminal law cannot prevent crime and does more harm than good.
Social Chaos—Part IV Why laws do not work and why individual liberty is the only means to a healthy society.
Religion and Absolute Moral Values Why a moral code of any kind cannot be a moral guide and actually prevents true morality.
Capitalism: Not What It Used To Be Why Capitalism should no longer be used to mean a free market or free enterprise. Capitalism, today, means fascism.
A Philosophy Overview—A Project A developing resource for those interesting in learning about philosophy and philosophers.
Philosophers A list, by date and alphabetically, of over 400 philosophers with links to resources.
Problems of Objectivism and OINOs (Objectivists In Name Only)Top
A Universal Mistake Problems with Rand's view of universals.
Knowledge of Particulars Objectivist epistemology does not address the question of how we have knowledge of particulars.
Measurement The problem with the use of "measurement" in the Objectivist definition of concepts.
Retaliation Objectivism's imprecise use of the world "retaliation."
About Force The Objectivist contention that "force can be stopped only by force," is simply untrue and leads to wrong concepts in both ethics and politics.
OINO Hate Verses Reality Self-styled Objectivists whose irrational hate for religion parallels the historic hate of the Jews.
OINO's Paranoid Fear of Christians Demonstrating the irration fear and loathing of Christians by some who call themselves Objectivists.
Three Books: An Atheist's Defence of Christianity The evil of those who would crush all religion, and the virtues of Christianity that contributed to Western Civilization.
Strange Noodles Recoverd forum thread: Individualist smeared by OINOs.
Objectivists' War on Christianity Concerning a talk entitled, "Christianity vs. Objectivism," presented by an "Objectivist" professor.
Pseudo-sciences—Psychology, Environmentalism, EvolutionTop
Fifth Cavalry or Fifth Column Examining psychiatry's disastrous role in our lives.
Green Evil—A Hate Speech Environmentalists have always been liars, anti-industry, anti-human, and anti-life.
Problems of the Evolutionary Hypothesis A thorough critique of the evolutionary hypothesis from the view of a geneticist.
Protecting the Theory at Any Cost Fred Reed's scathing expose of evolutionary absurdities.
Fredwin On Evolution Fred Reed's big questions about evolution.
Fred Plans To Devolve Fred Reed—more questions about evolution.
Designing We Shall Go Fred Reed—questions about intelligent design.
Evolutionary Psychology, Sort Of Fred Reed—Evolution, more religion than science.
PEEism—America's Dominant Religious Cult Put over as sciences, psychology, environmentalism, and evolution are the three greatest frauds in history.
Environmental Hegemony How the fraud of environmentalism has come to dominate every aspect of society, economy, and culture.
The Environmentalists' Trick By tricking legitimate scientist into debating them, the greens' environmentalism is given a false patina of legitimacy.
Unpredictability and Environmentalism Exposing the endless fraud of those who claim to make longterm predicitons.
Repress, Repress, Repress The psychological lies of "repression" and "denial."