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The Power of Objectivism: The Morality of Life, Intelligence, Greed, Selfishness, Rationality, Individuality, Integrity, Capitalism, Desire, and Freedom

This book is an essay about Objectivism, the philosophy created by philosopher Ayn Rand in her novel Atlas Shrugged. Many people have heard about Objectivism (although many others have not), and they are curious to learn more about it. The book argues that Objectivism, as a philosophy, can be reduced to an ethics, and that this ethics can be...

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What They Won’t Tell You About Objectivism: Thoughts on the Objectivist Philosophy in the Post-Randian Era (Philosophy, Logic, Science, Law)

Everyone has heard dark whispers about the philosophy of Objectivism. People read Ayn Rand’s novels and fall in love with her ideas, only to collapse into one of two inevitable fates: (1) eventually give up on the ideas as childish and selfish, often complaining that the philosophy is a cult, or (2) develop a religious, zealous fanaticism,...

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Golden Rule Libertarianism: A Defense of Freedom in Social, Economic, and Legal Policy (Philosophy, Logic, Science, Law)

An insightful mixture of political philosophy and policy advocacy, this book justifies libertarian politics using the Golden Rule of ethics to achieve a provocative new political theory called GOLD. GOLD defends the libertarian position on antiwar, drugs, prostitution, civil liberties, abortion rights, and gay marriage, GOLD explains why free...

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A System of Legal Logic: Using Aristotle, Ayn Rand, and Analytical Philosophy to Understand the Law, Interpret Cases, and Win in Litigation (A Scholarly Monograph) (Philosophy, Logic, Science, Law)

This paper provides a new system of logic, including philosophical principles and logical notation, based on the work in logic done by Aristotle and later by Ayn Rand but also with a nod to modern Analytical philosophy, which is extremely useful to lawyers for analyzing facts to determine whether they satisfy the elements of a claim, as well as...

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The Golden Wand Trilogy

Author’s Note: This novel is “LitRPG Lite,” which means that it does not give explicit stats, levels, etc., but it is very much RPG-inspired fantasy literature, in which characters acquire items and weapons and spells, gain experience and increase in power by fighting and defeating enemies, and obtain quests that require them to venture into...

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The Gospel of Judas: A Novel

When Judas falls in love with Jesus, it’s a disaster waiting to happen…

Judas is a young Jewish man in Roman-occupied Ancient Israel who harbors a dark secret: he has a huge crush on a local wizard who is rapidly gaining fame and notoriety… a wizard named Jesus Christ. When Judas finally gets the chance to meet Jesus, he is blown away by Jesus’s...

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The Office of Heavenly Restitution: A Fantasy Fiction Anthology (A Useful Fantasy - Self-Esteem YA Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopian, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Soft Horror)

These ten fantasy fiction short stories are rich in intriguing characters and suspenseful conflicts, and provide a fast, fun pace that will give you a sense of enjoyment while making you think about deep, meaningful issues in the human experience. Explore the conflict between resentment and freedom in “The Unsealed Heart” and “The Mine”,...

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Project Utopia: A Libertarian Science Fiction Anthology (A Useful Fantasy - Self-Esteem YA Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopian, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Soft Horror)

Russell Hasan continues the proud tradition of libertarian science fiction with this contribution to the genre, a short fiction anthology featuring seven science fiction stories. Here you will find “Project Utopia,” a flash fiction story about control and freedom, “Stealth Stars,” a longer story in which an astronaut explorer lands on a strange...

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On Forgiveness

This is an essay on forgiveness, not in the religious sense, but in a purely secular meaning, as in, when one person forgives another person for something they did wrong. The primary focus is on self-forgiveness, where a person forgives themselves, a concept which this essay explains as “moral bankruptcy,” using debts and credits and bankruptcy...

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The Magic Key Cards: A Science Fiction Thriller Suspense Spy Adventure Conspiracy Theory Comedy

The Magic Key Cards, a fun, strange science fiction novella about a hapless hero named Jack who by some random coincidence learns about an evil secret society that rules the world and obtains a magical item capable of defeating them, an item conveniently disguised as something no sane person would ever look for: a Libertarian Party membership...

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If P Then Q: Why Philosophy Can Teach You How to Think and Help You Live a Happy Life By the Methods of Applying Logic to Solve the Problems in Your Life ... (Philosophy, Logic, Science, Law)

This short paper on logic argues that logic and science can go hand in hand, and that, by taking observations of perceptions and sensations, and applying logical analysis to them, you have the power to build conceptual models and frameworks that you can use in order to predict what you should do in the future and to reason how to solve the...

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The Throne War - A Sword & Sorcery LitRPG Dark Fantasy with a Boy Thief, a Knight, a Ninja, a Sorceress, Monsters, an Evil King, and Lots of RPG-Style Combat (The Golden Wand Trilogy Book 1)

A young thief named Zandrew accidentally finds a magical item called The Golden Wand, throwing him into a quest to save the world from the Dark God Vladius and leading him into an alliance with a group of heroes who serve the God of Light Arlius, but his quest turns out to be more than what it seems, when the evil kings and queens who rule this...

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The Shadow of Heaven - A Sword & Sorcery LitRPG Dark Fantasy with Heroes, Elves, Dragons, Vampires, a Quest, and Lots of RPG-Style Combat (The Golden Wand Trilogy Book 2)

Zandrew and his friends have escaped from The Empire and reached The Mountain Kingdom, a safe haven for the worshippers of the God of Light Arlius, but they must leave behind this safety, and journey out into darkness and danger, on their quest to find Ankezebaur the Last Avatar of Light, from whom they hope to learn the Great Secret that will...

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The Castle in the Sky - A Sword & Sorcery LitRPG Dark Fantasy with Gods, a War, and an RPG-Combat-Style Final Battle Between Good and Evil (The Golden Wand Trilogy Book 3)

The quest of the Golden Wand seems doomed when Zandrew and his allies learn that Ankezebaur the Last Avatar of Light is dead, but a slim glimmer of hope still remains, and Zandrew, Sheila, Tyrona, Rellora, Gennis, Corbyn and Rodrick cling to that slender hope and venture onto one final quest, to try to piece together fragments of the Great...

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Rand’s Axiom Problem: On Objectivity, Ontology, Essence, Epistemology, Deduction, Induction, and the Foundations of Knowledge (Philosophy, Logic, Science, Law)

This short paper contests and disputes the foundations of Objectivist epistemology, challenging Ayn Rand’s position that axioms are the basis of all Objectivist logic, and instead asserts that perception and perceived things, not axioms, are the starting point for the set of inferences which build up and culminate in the blooming flower of human...

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An Essay on Reason and Perception (Philosophy, Logic, Science, Law)

This treatise on epistemology is a defense of knowledge of the physical world, which refutes a collection of the history of philosophy’s most popular arguments, such as the argument that sensory perception is capable of deception, the argument that sensory experience is subjective and therefore incapable of knowing objective reality, the...

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Libertarian Economics: A Manifesto and an Explanation (Philosophy, Logic, Science, Law)

Want to learn about Libertarian Economics? Why the rise and eventual triumph of The Liberty Movement is an inevitable historical necessity? Why every other economic system is corrupt, and only this system is good? Interested in understanding what Libertarian Economics really means? Then please read this book!
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Moral Logic and Economic Logic: On Knowledge, Choice, Will, Desire, The Moral Ideal, Economics, and Economic Value, with a System of Symbolic Logical Notation (Philosophy, Logic, Science, Law)

What is logic? What are the scope and limits of logic? Is it possible to use logic to create a system of ethics and morality? Is it possible for logic to fully define a theory of economics? If so, how and under what conditions? What does moral logic look like? What are the principles of economic logic? Is logic alone a necessary and sufficient...

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Everything is Something: A Philosophical Dialogue About Logic, Language, Words, Meanings, Truth, and The Theory of Things (Philosophy, Logic, Science, Law)

This short philosophical dialogue is written in the style of Plato but with substance that is closer to Aristotle. It is written in a way that is simple, engaging, and easy to understand, while at the same time tackling and grappling head on with some of the most complicated, difficult questions and issues ever posed in the history of...

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On Self-Reliance, Self-Esteem, and Intellectual Honesty (Philosophy, Logic, Science, Law)

This book is a (very) short essay about self-reliance, intellectual honesty, and self-esteem, and what it means to be an Objectivist. The essay lays out what it means if you choose the path of self-reliance, what commitments you are undertaking if you do so, what you gain, what you lose, how and why self-reliance can help you live a better life,...

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