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philosophy created by Ayn Rand

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This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,[41] that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason. He who would derive from experience the conceptions of virtue, who would make (as many have really done) that, which at best can but serve as an imperfectly illustrative example, a model for or the formation of a…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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Also there is the objectivist position. This creed is that the actual elements perceived by our senses are _in themselves_ the elements of a common world; and that this world is a complex of things, including indeed our acts of cognition, but transcending…
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
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The self is itself creating for each of its elements a new environment--this is a fact which if kept in mind will enable us to see the abstractness and fallacies not merely of libertarianism and determinism, but of subjectivism and objectivism. Subjective or "inward" theories have sought standards in the self; but in regarding the self as an entity independent of such a process as we have described they have exposed…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
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