Structure

Objectivist Living

  • Objectivist Culture (“The World according to Objectivism”)
  • Objectivist Dialogs (“Continuing from the meetings”)
  • Objective News (“News aggregator for the pursuit of the good life”)
  • Press Releases (“Changing the World”)
  • Online Infrastructure

Under “Objectivist Culture”:

  • Logical writings:
    This section includes blog entries on the philosophy of logic, academic logic, language, grammar, rhetoric, fallacies, argument analyses and interpretations (including debates)
  • Epistemological (and ontological) writings:
    This section covers epistemology, cognition, knowledge, issues about percepts, concepts, axioms, induction, justification. For completeness, it includes topics on the philosophy of mind, the faculties of consciousness, volition.
  • Ethical writings:
    Blog entries include ethical and metaethical issues, interpretations of Objectivist literature, personal applications of ethics, business ethics.
  • Political (and economic) writings:
    Topics include political philosophy, philosophy of law, the nature government, objective law, rights, capitalism, the economy, political power versus economic power, the separation of state from commerce and from religion.
  • Psychological writings:
    Topics include motivational psychology, methodological psychology (include psycho-epistemology), self-esteem and self-improvement issues, the art of introspection, intellectual virtues and vices, the awareness and identification of emotions and desires.
  • Poetical writings:
    Topics include the esthetics of romantic realism, the nature of artworks, pedagogical approaches to the liberal and fine arts, sense of life in the culture, critical reviews of popular works of entertainment (including games, sports, recreation), attempts at actual works of art (if any).

Under the super structure itself:

  • Objectivist Dialogs:
    Topics include transcriptions of some conversations during study meetings that may be valuable to new members of the group.
  • Objective News:
    Topics include first- and second-hand reports (with hyperlinks) about businesses, the marketplace, sciences, medicines, technologies, travels, people, events, etc. that are of interest or relevance in the pursuit of the good life.
  • Press Releases:
    Topics includes the group’s own newsmaking events, coordinated publicity, what we are doing to enhance the culture at large for virtuous living.
  • Online Infrastructure:
    This section is fine as is, and it is for metadiscussion of the blog, like this entry, and for testing purposes.