Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Philosophy One of several doctrines holding that all reality is objective and external to the mind and that knowledge is reliably based on observed objects and events.
- n. An emphasis on objects rather than feelings or thoughts in literature or art.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In philosophy, the tendency to magnify the importance of the objective elements of cognition; especially, the doctrine that knowledge of the non-ego takes precedence in time, in logical sequence, and in order of importance of all knowledge of the ego.
- n. The character, in a work of art or in its author, of being objective, in the sense of dramatic, presenting things as they are and persons as they seem to themselves and to one another.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being objective.
- n. Moral objectivism.
- n. philosophy One of several doctrines that holds that all of reality is objective and exists outside of the mind.
- n. The specific objectivist philosophy created by novelist Ayn Rand, endorsing productive achievement and logical reasoning.
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“Wallace asks her to outline the idea she calls "objectivism.”
“Her theory of objectivism is correct as far as I’m concerned.”
“Luckily for me he doesn't agree with the game, he still seems to believe in objectivism.”
“The canonization of Rand and the greedy and callous selfishness called objectivism and the absorption of the absurd crock of horseshit came to become dogma in America where monopoly and the destruction of economies are the end result of this sort of sociopathic behavior.”
“Another new book, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns, examines Rand's natural attraction for conservatives — Alan Greenspan was a member of the Saturday-night salon she held in her New York apartment (though William F. Buckley called objectivism "stillborn" in a column he wrote when she died).”
“But a Rand expert says the blog post displays a misreading of the author's philosophy, known as objectivism.”
“In the Randian ethos, called objectivism, the only real morality is self-interest, and society is divided into groups who are efficiently self-interested (ie, the rich) and the”
“BioShock 1, where we didn't have Andrew Ryan and the notion of objectivism -- we leave ourselves very open for evolution.”
“In the same way, the so-called objectivism of Rand already existed in the works of Ricardo and Smith, and found its way into Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. chicofaraby 4 points 56 minutes ago chicofaraby 4 points 56 minutes ago”
“After finishing The Fountainhead, Rand spent 14 years building a movement around what she called "objectivism" and composing the massive novel that would become Atlas Shrugged (1957).”
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