• What is the root of all evil?

    So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the...

  • The Choice Between Capitalism and Socialism

    A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any...

  • Brief Outline of Feminist Theory

    In the early 1980s law became subject to a variety of new and influential critiques. The foremost being the culmination of feminism. The vindications of women’s rights lead to a prominent movements, whereby, contextualisation of domestic violence, rape, sexual objectification, oppression, sexual discrimination, marriage and sexual marginalisation became scrutinized against the social normality, and new discourses of ...

  • Brief Outline of Feminist Theory

    In the early 1980s law became subject to a variety of new and influential critiques. The foremost being the culmination of feminism. The vindications of women’s rights lead to a prominent movements, whereby, contextualisation of domestic violence, rape, sexual objectification, oppression, sexual discrimination, marriage and sexual marginalisation became scrutinized against the social normality, and new discourses of ...

  • The Virtue of Selfishness

    (Ayn Rand Quotes) The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals. Poverty, ignorance, illness and other problems of that kind are not metaphysical emergencies. By the metaphysical nature of man and of existence, man has to maintain his life by his own effort; the values he needs—such as wealth or knowledge—are not given to him aut...

Posts tagged Meaning

Nihilism: The Meaninglessness of Life.

Dec 16th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

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The belief of Nihilism is that all values are baseless, purposeless and nothing in life can be known, communicated or proven. Often mistaken as extreme cynical pessimism, the radical and often frowned upon term condemns life as a purposeless existence without cause. The best description of a nihilistic individual is someone who believes in nothing, has no loyalties, and has no other purpose than to destroy hope and realism.

Characterised by Friedrich Nietzsche, it was often argued that that the corrosive affects of nihilism would eventually destroy all moral, religious, and metaphysical convictions, which supposedly would precipitate the greatest crisis in More >

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The Meaning of ‘Meaning’.

Jan 1st

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

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When people deliberate over the meaning of life’s existence, often they are seeking to attain knowledge of how the existence of one of us over time employs a purpose. Beyond drawing the distinction between the life of an individual and that of a group, there has been very little discussion of life as the bearer of meaning. Most philosophical writings on meaning pronounce degrees and stages of time, in that, some periods of life are more meaningful than others, and that some lives as a whole are more purposeful, Britton (1969). Although not particularly coherent, the view that some people’s More >

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