PRINCIPLEX

This is dedicated to the individual and his freedom. The long journey of history is the individual becoming responsible for his own life while living in a civilization of individuals. "Man's mind is his basic means of survival," an individual reasoning faculty. Attempts to bypass this fact are doomed. Man, having a particular nature as does all of existence, is bound and at the same time free to create whole new worlds by recombining the raw material that nature provides without end.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Five Strategies for Altruism

Here is a link to Dr. Stephen Hicks' article on Elsworth Toohey's five strategies for altruism. Elsworth is the evil character of The Fountainhead fame.

The next step is to concretize how these play out, if they do, in one's own life. Altruism is the philosophy of self-sacrifice that must be defeated if human happiness is to thrive. Altruism leads to emptiness, the opposite of the happiness possible to a life full of value.

1 comment:

Christopher Budden said...: I really enjoyed this link you shared. I will pass it on!; April 21, 2012 at 8:39 PM

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