Defending Egoism Pt. 2 - Basic Epistemology

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Defending Egoism Pt. 2 - Basic Epistemology

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Second part of Defending Egoism, covering basic epistemology.
Cited Works:
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
Recommended Reading:
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand

Tags for this video: anarchism anarchy ayn egoism ethics libertarian libertarianism market murray objectivism rand rothbard selfishness

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Excellent, once ... ( 10 months ago by Kbiomech)

Excellent, once again. I especially liked your coverage of volition, or Free Will. I think I might do a video response on the subject, since an awful lot of statist ideology denies the existence of volition.

You have no grounds ... ( 10 months ago by dateofbirthdateof)

You have no grounds to say "contradictions do not exist in reality" as you have no way of interpreting reality without your mind. It is even more likely that reality contains contradictions and it is the mind which can only make sense of things which exist in non-contradiction.

How can something ... ( 10 months ago by dateofbirthdateof)

How can something contradict itself without something, which uses reason, to understand the contradiction? There is no ultimate power that has absolutely pure access to nature, which we have stumbled across and can make deductions from. The closest thing is sensation alone, which does not include the integration of those sensations in the formation of conceptions. The integration occurs in the mind. Don't you think this is worth considering?

You're implicitly ... ( 10 months ago by XOmniverse)

You're implicitly assuming all of the things you are trying to disprove every time you try to communicate with me.

My reliance on ... ( 10 months ago by dateofbirthdateof)

My reliance on reason to address its limits is not even contradictory within reason. It is not possible to "know" what is happening with no"knowing" occurring.

you need to get out ... ( 10 months ago by holdontoyourwig)

you need to get out more buddy. instead of trying to understand yourself and the world around you ..........simply go out and live your life.

Array ( 10 months ago by FatGermanBastard)

Part 1:
"A sensation is just the direct interaction of a sensory organ with reality"
1. How do you know ? How do you know your organs even exist ? Maybe your mind is just a lightning somewhere in the universe that lasts only one second and all the memories you believe to have are part of it.

Array ( 10 months ago by FatGermanBastard)

Part 2:
2. Our brain plugged into a matrix would also just be direct interaction of our organs with reality. Reality would be a computer connected to our brain. This, however, does not prove that we are able to understand or know reality.

Array ( 10 months ago by FatGermanBastard)

Part 3:
Even if we assume you are right and our organs do interact with reality we still wouldn't know if our mind is capable of understanding reality. I.e. a fly is probably not capable of understanding that a picture looks the way it does because someone painted it...even if it was watching that person painting it. Organs interacting with reality does not mean that our mind is capable of understanding reality.

exactly! They say ... ( 10 months ago by racer7nevercrashes)

exactly! They say that the most valuable education someone can give themselves is to travel the world & experience life in other cultures. Most people that do that, tend to have opposing views of all these right-wing shut-ins (& also tend to get laid!) It's no wonder that alot of "anarchist/libertarian" nuts go off the deep end. Example: Timmothy McVeigh.

first of all you ... ( 10 months ago by preput)

first of all you don't know how much he goes out or not. second of all you don't realize that some people may actually find more FUN in trying to understand the world rather then just riding along. if your message is that he might understand the world better if he just interacts with it a lot means that you rely solely on your subconscious to process the received data. the thing with the subconscious is that it is often wrong since it doesn't work objectively

Is the real what ... ( 10 months ago by dateofbirthdateof)

Is the real what meets one in sensation in the moment or is it what seems eternal, as in math. I wonder what Ayn Rand thinks "integration" is. Are objects integrating somehow external to the mind? Or is the experience of integration subjective? What about time. Did Ayn Rand ever have anything to say about time?

Trying to ... ( 10 months ago by Kbiomech)

Trying to understand the world around us is the ultimate "thrill" if you have brains and curiousity. I've been a lot of places and done a lot of things, and the questions "why?" and "how?" still dominate my thinking just as much now as they did when I was a baby. Maybe more.

LOL. Sorry, but if ... ( 10 months ago by racer7nevercrashes)

LOL. Sorry, but if you had "brains" you wouldn't of made a definitive statement about "brains & ultimate thrills". Most normal people would find bonking some stranger in a strange land more of a "thrill". And besides, I doubt you did much meaningful traveling as an employee of a pizza place for 16 years, or being homeless for 1.5 years. Not to get personal, but you did open the flood gate of insults with your comment.

Actually, I wasn't ... ( 10 months ago by racer7nevercrashes)

Actually, I wasn't trying to insult you. If I did, my apologies. Just trying to point out reality. In the real world, all this "anarcho capitalism" crap would never work. And that's why there's no modern real world references where it has. It's just a bunch of fantasyland crap believed in by a bunch of dungeon & dragons nerds. (Just being sarcastic) ;-)

I didn't feel ... ( 10 months ago by Kbiomech)

I didn't feel insulted, merely giving another angle on your thought. Intellectual pursuits are, to me at least, very fun. I completely disagree with your assesment of anarchocapitalism, but that's not the point of this particular argument, is it? My career was not all at one location, nor even in just one state. I've travelled extensively in the US and a bit outside of it, and done a LOT of things in my life.

I find that I am ... ( 10 months ago by Kbiomech)

I find that I am able to do a great many things that my contemporaries, having led relatively sedate and unexamined lives, find extraordinary in a man not yet forty. I find it extraordinary that they CANNOT do these things. In the past of THIS NATION a generalist such as myself was quite common. Look up the concept of the "competent man" on wikipedia.

from wikipedia:"The ... ( 10 months ago by racer7nevercrashes)

from wikipedia:"The competent man or competent woman is a stock character who can do anything perfectly". Alrighty, if you say so. Wikipedia this: "megalomania". You look that up too, XO. And yes, you're right, this isn't the place to argue about how "anarcho capitalism is a bunch of bullshit. I'll do that later, when I have time. Have a good one : )

Actually, youtube ... ( 10 months ago by racer7nevercrashes)

Actually, youtube this: "re: re: v-tech" & click on xo's vid. I briefly point out how "Ancap" is crap. If I didn't have to worry about pissing off clients that do watch this ytube crap, I would save time & just make a video. Maybe I'll hire somebody to do it. Need a job? ;-)

Not the first time ... ( 10 months ago by Kbiomech)

Not the first time I've been called a megalomaniac (grin). But more to the point, the quote from Heinlein's character was more the point. The idea that a man should be able to do a wide range of things WELL, rather than being highly specialized.

I'd take the job if ... ( 10 months ago by Kbiomech)

I'd take the job if you weren't completely opposed to nearly everything I believe in, though based on your comments we do have SOME common ground. Not much though. You can disguise yourself...

A contradiction is ... ( 9 months ago by D4Shawn)

A contradiction is something that occurs during the process of interpretation (of reality). It is by definition a misinterpretation of reality. Reality does not interpret itself (unless you think "reality" is self-aware [whatever that would mean].

Thank you very much ... ( 5 months ago by KrumpusJeff)

Thank you very much for giving examples of the concepts that you talk about.

the whole ... ( 4 weeks ago by ex0gen)

the whole epistemology is circular and based on a failure to deal with the problem of the external world as I said on the last video. how do we know we have sensory organs if the idea of the brain in the vat/matrix idea has not been dealt with. rather it was just dismissed as irrelevant. we sense "things" which we then interpret. some one like Derrida's would completely dismantle rand at this point. and yes taking apart peoples assumptions does threaten them because most have not faced the dark

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