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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] | |||
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."]] | |||
*[[Fact|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|Measurement-omission.]] | |||
*The definitional principle is: wherever possible, an essential characteristic must be a fundamental. | |||
*[[Crow-epistemology|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|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]]. | |||
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Latest revision as of 02:33, 9 January 2012
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.
- The definitional principle is: wherever possible, an essential characteristic must be a fundamental.
- 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.
- The arbitrary cannot be cognitively processed.
- Life as the standard of value.