"You can apply your personal beliefs [objectively] as long as they are more than personal but also logical. If they are not logical, they should not be your personal beliefs. You should drop them and get other personal beliefs."
Also to be aware there first needs to be SOMETHING to be aware of. I assume you don’t know anything other than the word “awareness” if you aren’t aware of anything else.
"The author believes that epistemology has kidnapped modern philosophy, and well nigh ruined it; he hopes for the time when the study of the knowledge-process will be recognized as the business of the science of psychology, and when philosophy will again be understood as the synthetic interpretation of all experience rather than the analytic description of the mode and process of experience itself." Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, 1926. Within 6 minutes of this video, the point about epistemology gets proven on the exact same subject (the fall of philosophy).
5:01-6:58 is basically Matthias Desmet's recent (and massively disappointing) book in a nutshell: blame herd behavior on too much individualism, and insane public policy on too much science. As the young folks like to say, SMDH.
Why are you just dumping content on youtube? You need a strategy for releasing content at regular intervals (1 or 2 times a week) to optimise subscriber growth.
@@donald1292It is enough to be aware, to be aware. It is enough to be aware that one is aware, to be aware that one is aware. Being aware is an objective relation that requires no awareness of it, in order to exist. There is no infinite regress.
Not sure what you are responding to. I guess it may be Ayn Rand's axiom about the primacy of existence, and her rejection of the notion of the primacy of consciousness. Existence "versus" Consciousness as to which "claims" primacy. Not Reality v Reality. For sure there is only one Reality. To hold that Consciousness has primacy over Existence is the essence of what it means to be subjective and the root of Idealism. (Hard to believe that anybody would derive facts from 'inner' phenomena such as feelings and beliefs? Think of someone who decides that a certain person is guilty, untrustworthy or somehow bad, because they don't like that person's voice or face. You know such people. Not to mention the loudmouth who proclaims that he believes it's wrong for women to wear trousers, or for kids to dance, etc., and therefore they shouldn't and there should be rules against it.) To hold that Existence has primacy over Consciousness is to reject subjectivity, and to then acknowledge the role of Reason as the correct approach for Consciousness in dealing with Existence -- that is the essence of Objectivity.
Leonard Peikoff is a truly great mind.
1:24:09 right at the end. This is why I love Leonard. So direct, so cutting.
I wish I had that level of absolute clarity
"You can apply your personal beliefs [objectively] as long as they are more than personal but also logical. If they are not logical, they should not be your personal beliefs. You should drop them and get other personal beliefs."
And the fact that he can answer with such clarity at the drop of a hat!
This was the best lecture at Ford Hall in 1990. Now, is the best Ayn Rand Institute video.
A brilliant man
"It was a painful choice, but I made it myself" 🤣
Philosophy of language is unreson. Peikoff said the truth.
These 'quotes of horror' really live up to their names.
Awareness is known by awareness alone; is the sole irreducible axiom of reality. To put forth a syllable to the contrary is but to concede.
Are you aware of the motive behind the choice to be aware? Or is everyone aware?
Also to be aware there first needs to be SOMETHING to be aware of. I assume you don’t know anything other than the word “awareness” if you aren’t aware of anything else.
Awareness is limited. You aren’t aware of everything unless you mean “everything” then you know nothing.
Starts at 1:53
Philosophy of language is a example of unreason. Objectivism is the true philosophy in western thought.
Awareness is the Only constant of All experience what could be more fundamental to reality than that?
"The author believes that epistemology has kidnapped modern philosophy, and well nigh ruined it; he hopes for the time when the study of the knowledge-process will be recognized as the business of the science of psychology, and when philosophy will again be understood as the synthetic interpretation of all experience rather than the analytic description of the mode and process of experience itself." Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, 1926. Within 6 minutes of this video, the point about epistemology gets proven on the exact same subject (the fall of philosophy).
5:01-6:58 is basically Matthias Desmet's recent (and massively disappointing) book in a nutshell: blame herd behavior on too much individualism, and insane public policy on too much science. As the young folks like to say, SMDH.
Are there videos?
If existence exist as SOMETHING what is that something, and if existence exist as ALL THINGS what knows all things?
You must be old, stupid or too young to understand.
@@jacksonstone246 Or objectivism is a bunch of complete nonsense
Quantum mechanics is real. The facts are real.
No one said the opposite.
Why are you just dumping content on youtube? You need a strategy for releasing content at regular intervals (1 or 2 times a week) to optimise subscriber growth.
Reality is not two, there can be no primacy. Awareness is known by awareness alone.
Awareness of awareness of awareness of... Ad infinitum with nothing to be aware at the end.. 😉
Awareness is known by awareness alone; is the sole irreducible axiom of reality. To put forth a syllable to the contrary is but to concede.
@@donald1292It is enough to be aware, to be aware. It is enough to be aware that one is aware, to be aware that one is aware.
Being aware is an objective relation that requires no awareness of it, in order to exist.
There is no infinite regress.
Not sure what you are responding to. I guess it may be Ayn Rand's axiom about the primacy of existence, and her rejection of the notion of the primacy of consciousness. Existence "versus" Consciousness as to which "claims" primacy. Not Reality v Reality. For sure there is only one Reality. To hold that Consciousness has primacy over Existence is the essence of what it means to be subjective and the root of Idealism. (Hard to believe that anybody would derive facts from 'inner' phenomena such as feelings and beliefs? Think of someone who decides that a certain person is guilty, untrustworthy or somehow bad, because they don't like that person's voice or face. You know such people. Not to mention the loudmouth who proclaims that he believes it's wrong for women to wear trousers, or for kids to dance, etc., and therefore they shouldn't and there should be rules against it.) To hold that Existence has primacy over Consciousness is to reject subjectivity, and to then acknowledge the role of Reason as the correct approach for Consciousness in dealing with Existence -- that is the essence of Objectivity.
Idealism ( Bradley) is complete wrong.