Concept
Objectivist movement
Overview
a movement of individuals who seek to study and advance Objectivism
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The perfect or complete ideal is not a mere ideal; it is operative here and now. But it is present only implicitly, "potentially," or in an enfolded condition. What is termed development is the gradual making explicit and outward of what is thus wrapped up. Froebel and Hegel, the authors of the two philosophic schemes referred to, have different ideas of the path by which the progressive realization of manifestation…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
States what Objectivist movement is.
The purposes of conduct are to be determined in the presence of a field of alternative possibilities of action. The ends of conduct are not to be determined in advance, but in view of the interests that fuller knowledge of conditions awaken. So there appears a conception of determining the field that shall be quite independent of given values.
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
Close in meaning to Objectivist movement; the term itself is not named.
For this purpose movement following upon motives, and therefore consciousness, becomes necessary, and consequently it appears as an agent, μηχανη, called in at this stage of the objectification of will for the conservation of the individual and the propagation of the species. It appears represented by the brain or a large ganglion, just as every other effort or determination of the will which objectifies itself is…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
Close in meaning to Objectivist movement; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Objectivist movement
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Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.