Craig Biddle

Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Chapter 2, Part 2 of 3)

If we are to establish an objective, fact-based morality, we need to discover a final end–one toward which all of our other goals and values are properly aimed.

Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Chapter 2, Part 1 of 3)

Adapted from Chapter 2 of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It by Craig Biddle. As we have seen, subjectivism--whether "supernatural," social, or personal--fails to provide proper guidance for human action, because each version...

Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 7 of 7)

There is only one way to combat a morality that is against human life, and that is by embracing a morality that is for human life–a non-sacrificial morality–the morality of self-interest.

Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 6 of 7)

Altruism, in both its religious and its secular forms, is crippling the lives of real men, women, and children every day.

Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 5 of 7)

Adapted from Chapter 1 of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It by Craig Biddle. In case there are any doubts, history provides conclusive evidence of the sacrificial nature of all three forms of subjectivism. Let us look first at...

Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 4 of 7)

Adapted from Chapter 1 of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It by Craig Biddle. There are hundreds of religions. Each is vying for your allegiance. Each denies the validity of the others. Each claims to be based on the "true" word...

Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 3 of 7)

or morality to be objective, it has to be based on a standard of value derived not from feelings, but from facts.

Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 2 of 7)

Adapted from Chapter 1 of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It by Craig Biddle. Whereas religion holds that God creates truth and moral law, subjectivism holds that people do; it is the view that truth and morality are not...

Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 1 of 7)

If you want to live your life to the fullest, if you want to achieve the greatest happiness possible, this book is for you. It is about the essential means to that end: a proper code of values--a proper morality. Contrary to popular myth, morality does not come from...

Capitalist Hawk for Kerry

"A half-battle is worse than none: it does not end in mere defeat--it helps and hastens the victory of your enemies." Ayn Rand John Kerry is despicable, and I will vote for him. Contrary to the position of some Objectivists that President Bush is doing a defensible...

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