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<blockquote>A principle is "a fundamental, primary, or general truth, on which other truths depend." Thus a principle is an abstraction which subsumes a great number of concretes. It is only by a means of principles that one can set one's long-range goals and evaluate the concrete alternatives of any given moment. It is only principles that enable a man to plan his future and achieve it.</blockquote>["The Anatomy of Compromise", CUI, p144] | <blockquote>A principle is "a fundamental, primary, or general truth, on which other truths depend." Thus a principle is an abstraction which subsumes a great number of concretes. It is only by a means of principles that one can set one's long-range goals and evaluate the concrete alternatives of any given moment. It is only principles that enable a man to plan his future and achieve it.</blockquote>["The Anatomy of Compromise", CUI, p144] | ||
Some principles of Objectivism: | |||
*[[Existence|Existence exists.]] | |||
*[[Identity|The law of identity.]] | |||
*[[Consciousness|Consciousness is conscious.]] | |||
*[[Causality|The law of causality.]] | |||
*[[Primacy of Existence|"Primacy of existence."]] | |||
*[[Primacy of Consciousness|"Primacy of consciousness."]] | |||
*Facts are not "malleable." | |||
*No alternative to a fact of reality is possible or imaginable. | |||
*Consciousness has identity. | |||
*[[Volition|Volition.]] | |||
*The faculty of reason is the faculty of volition. | |||
*The unit must be appropriate to the attribute being measured. | |||
*Measurement-omission. | |||
*The definitional principle is: wherever possible, an essential characteristic must be a fundamental. | |||
*Crow epistemology | |||
*Unit-economy | |||
*Thinking, to be valid, must adhere to reality. | |||
*"Existence is Identity; Consciousness is Identification." | |||
*The law of contradiction. | |||
*Human knowledge on every level is relational. | |||
*Knowledge follows a necessary order. | |||
*Rand's Razor | |||
*The [[arbitrary]] cannot be cognitively processed. | |||
*[[Mind-Body Dichotomy|Mind-body integration.]] | |||
*Life as the standard of value | |||
In [[ethics]], principles for behavior are known as [[virtues]]. | In [[ethics]], principles for behavior are known as [[virtues]]. | ||
[[Category:Ethics]] | [[Category:Ethics]] |
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A principle is "a fundamental, primary, or general truth, on which other truths depend." Thus a principle is an abstraction which subsumes a great number of concretes. It is only by a means of principles that one can set one's long-range goals and evaluate the concrete alternatives of any given moment. It is only principles that enable a man to plan his future and achieve it.
["The Anatomy of Compromise", CUI, p144]
Some principles of Objectivism:
- Facts are not "malleable."
- No alternative to a fact of reality is possible or imaginable.
- Consciousness has identity.
- The faculty of reason is the faculty of volition.
- The unit must be appropriate to the attribute being measured.
- Measurement-omission.
- The definitional principle is: wherever possible, an essential characteristic must be a fundamental.
- Crow epistemology
- Unit-economy
- Thinking, to be valid, must adhere to reality.
- "Existence is Identity; Consciousness is Identification."
- The law of contradiction.
- Human knowledge on every level is relational.
- Knowledge follows a necessary order.
- Rand's Razor
- The arbitrary cannot be cognitively processed.
- Life as the standard of value