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When someone acts well in regard to values and in particular in relation to other people in a way consistent with a system of values, even when it requires some effort or cost that brings no obvious immediate and personal … Continue reading →

In my last post,  I wrote about children’s charities as indicators of the abstract love of children, which although very broad, was nonetheless a reality as solid as the ground we stand on.  Let us break down this abstract love … Continue reading →

It is obvious that, for almost all of us, human life is a value.  This is a very abstract statement with very little in the way of specifics.  The virtue of a properly constructed abstraction or concept, is that if … Continue reading →

For any circumstance, when one asks “What is the cause of x?”  what we are asking for is an essential explanation that fits our context of inquiry.  For example, if  a house is burned down, it does not serve our … Continue reading →

Frankl wrote about “The Will To Meaning” in one section of his “Logotherapy In A Nutshell.”  He explained that what he meant is what I would call the Meaning Principle as opposed to Freud’s Pleasure Principle.  The way he described … Continue reading →

Let us now continue to examine meaningful values and how they relate to other values and each other.  In Frankl, recall this quotation from earlier: According to Logotherapy, we can discover this [or the] meaning in life in three different … Continue reading →

In “The Objectivist Ethics,” Rand postulated that if one stipulates an immortal robot, no values are possible.  Many of us have puzzeled over this for some time.  I think that now the answer is clear.  If this robot incorporates meaning … Continue reading →

From what we have considered about about meaning with Frankl, let us return to Rand and apply meaning to some of the things we have noted.  I note that meaning is restricted in scope to human beings.  While biochemical issues … Continue reading →

We now turn to Viktor E. Frankl, MD.  He was an Austrian Psychiatrist who founded “Logotherapy,” the “Third School Of Viennese Psychotherapy” after Freud’s and Adler’s.  He was imprisoned in concentration camps during World War Two.  He was a profound … Continue reading →

I will now begin to set the framework for us by outlining some basic ideas from Ayn Rand on ethics and morality.  A good deal of Rand’s thinking that I directly incorporate into my own is in the form of … Continue reading →

Obviously, no writer within the last three thousand years can claim to write only from his own thinking and it is important to recognize what the sources of thought are because: 1) The ideas or inferences may have a very … Continue reading →

After an additional 2 years of research and reflection, it is time to start up this blog again.  I have learned a few additional things of value for philosophy and living in this interval.  I should also say that my … Continue reading →