Intellectual Renegade

"The creator is the man who disagrees." -- Ayn Rand
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  • Randall Chester Saunders

Freedom and Individualism Notes: About Freedom Feb 4, 2016

Freedom does not pertain to having anything that is not the result of one's own action and does not pertain to anyone else's actions or non-actions that do not directly affect one's own freedom.

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Freedom and Individualism Notes: What Is Freedom? Feb 3, 2016

Freedom is that state (condition, situation) in which individuals my do anything they choose to do within the limits of reality.

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Freedom and Individualism Notes: Principles Feb 2, 2016

Ethical principles to not tell one how to live, they only tell one, "if you live this way, these will be the consequences."

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Freedom and Individualism Notes: Individualists Feb 1, 2016

Individualism is not dependent on or determined by knowledge, or ability, or any particular occupation; it is determined by one thing alone, the degree of an individual's chosen independence.

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Freedom and Individualism Notes: Only For Individualists Jan 31, 2016

If it is truly freedom you want, then an individualist you must be. I am not, however trying to encourage anyone to be an individualist if that is not their own choosing. I do not, in fact, believe it is possible to make someone who is not an individualist become one, or even want to.

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Everybody’s Different Jan 29, 2016

"Everybody knows smoking is harmful to your health." Here's the problem with what everyone knows. It's almost always wrong. It is almost a principle that if everybody, or almost everybody, believes something it is probably not true.

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Individual Freedom Jan 26, 2016

If you want freedom, like anything else of value in your life, you must provide it yourself, or at least seek to provide it.

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Reality—An Introduction to Philosophy Jan 18, 2016

As ruthless and implacable as reality is, it is also the source of infinite possibility. No success is possible in defiance of reality, but knowing what reality is and ordering one's life by the principles that describe it makes the achievement of anything possible.

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Why Do Most People Believe What Is Not True? Jan 16, 2016

Why do so many people that I find pleasant, intelligent, and generally lucid, also entertain so many impossibly absurd ideas.

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