... omnipotent designer god. One does not have to read for very long to find some modern intellectual involved in the analysis of some part of Nature come to the "Aha!" that there's a power at work imposing order, design, structure and purpose in creation. Modern religious piety salivates at the prospect of converting scientists and will take them any way it can. From Plato to Planck ... nothing can be regarded as essential, and nothing if anything can be taken as temptation for one to covet a higher state of living and experience. Note the contrasts of his analogy with Cleanthes' earlier m...

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... both traditional philosophy and modern psychology, the concept of the ego has played an important role in defining the boundaries of the "self." Although the two fields may seem to take very different views of what the ego is, this is only because they attempt to describe the concept in different terms. In this essay, I will try to take a more personal view of this concept, to ... when this did not happen all the time, my "feelings" would get hurt as a result. By the time I became a teenager, I realized that not only was I not the center of the universe, but I was just one of the billio...

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... in God. On the contrary, believing that man is somehow dependant on God is humiliating for a man as it does not depict a man as the highest being in the universe. For Rand, a single human being was to act by his rules and pursue his own happiness which was only possible when there was no God's intervention. That was the ... valid concepts. The Objectivist theory is in favour of the rejection of the analytic-synthetic distinction, and the rejection of the terms in which the modern "problem of induction " is formulated in analytical philosophy of science. "It undercuts nominalism at its roo...

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