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Norm's Thoughts BLOG
Topics in Norm's Thoughts are essays and analyses that comprise the entire gamut of areas that are relevant to our culture. They may be philosophical, political, historical, educational, medicine-related, or other appropriate areas.
Norman E. Hill is the author of:
Winner and Final Chairman
An Expose of an American Corporate Power Struggle and $138 Million Golden Parachute
If you read Barbarians at the Gates or followed Enron, you'll enjoy this fictionalized version of a corporate power struggle. It shows how a visionary business plan, not followed through, and never-ending corporate politics, undid a promising turnaround. read more
by Norman E. Hill ~ 0-7414-4773-8 ©2008
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Ethics, My Understanding of Objectivism
Notes on the Objectivist Ethics and Chain
Man exists primarily by reason and logic.
Man is fallible.
Man must plan long range.
Man needs a code of conduct to help plan long range.
Man must use reason and logic in this code.
Man must keep his reasoning faculty sharp and must not undercut or take "shortcuts" to bypass the use of reason and logic.
Man gains benefits from dealing with other men.
Man must deal as a trader with other men, one who uses reason and logic.
Someone who initiates force or fraud with other men is taking shortcuts with and undercutting reason and logic.
At the same time, he is undercutting his own faculty for using reason and logic and endangering its long term functioning.
Someone who initiates force or fraud is therefore endangering his long term means of survival.
This is the reason for the need for dealing honestly with other men and not initiating physical force or fraud. The need is a lifetime behavioral requirement, not one that can be discarded from time to time at a whim, and then reinstated whenever convenient.There is no blank check for rampant murder, robbery, fraud, etc., as a facade for "acting in one's own self interest." There is no justification for a "little" bit of robbery, fraud, etc., for all the same reasons.
Therefore, to have a fully laissez faire society, an Objectivist society with strictly limited government, this chain must be widely understood, not just by intellectuals but also by average men.It must be understood that behavioral requirements do not stem from commandments from society, a dictator, a mystical realm, or from a sermon on a mount.Some people will always choose to deviate, and one function of government is to protect the mass of people against those who do. But, their behavior must be recognized as deviant and outside the norm of what is acceptable ie rational.
Norman E. Hill
Winner & Final Chairman
BooksByHillsLabels: Ethics, Objectivism, Philosphy, Politics
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How Moral is Capitalism?
This is to answer Rich Karlgaard's February 12 article in Forbes.
Yes, the purer the capitalism, the more prosperous AND more moral the society. As Ayn Rand has pointed out, her ethical code supporting capitalism is not dependent on "outside moral influences" or "religious values"(Ten Commandments or Sermon on the Mount). A pure capitalist system with Rand's ethics will not deteriorate to the "inhumane, cutthroat" society mentioned. In fact, the redistributionists' main nonsecular supports are the Sermon on the Mount and the numerous antiwealth references in Scripture.
In briefest form, man absolutely depends on his mind for survival, long range planning, and trading and dealing with other men. If he acts unethically, he damages and endangers his mind's functioning and thus endangers his survival. ONLY by acting ethically can he serve his rational self interest and protect himself on a long range basis.
Widespread understanding of this ethical approach cannot come overnight, due to centuries of philosophical corruption. Rand has the philosophical system, including ethics, in place to bring this change about.
One cannot truly defend capitalism against its implacable enemies without realization that pure capitalism is moral and therefore is incompatible with altruism or mysticism.
Norman E. Hill
Norm's Thoughts Blog
Winner and Final Chairman
BooksByHills
NoraLyn LTDLabels: Ethics, Morals, Objectivism, Philosphy
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Attempt to Decipher Kant
Man gets knowledge from integrating. By perception, he starts with observing the existents all around him. He keeps them in mental grasp by conceptualizing i.e. by omitting the particular measurements of existents and grasping their common denominators. This process of integrating is how man acquires knowledge of and control over reality.
Kant also starts with existents and perception and forms an exceedingly complex conceptual chain supposedly applied to grasp and integrate the existents. He concludes that:
1. The existents he "grasps" are not those of true reality, i.e. of the noumenal world.
2. His observation of existents is from his sensing faculties that are neither omniscient nor omnipotent. Therefore, his observation is in principle distorted and, even if it was not, is not observation of true reality, i.e.the noumenal world.
3. His conceptual process and faculty are finite, neither omniscient nor omnipotent, and therefore could not mentally grasp the existents around him, even if they did represent true reality, ie the noumenal world. Therefore, his conceptual faculty is useless.
4. Therefore, in principle, man cannot grasp true reality.
Kant forms this conclusion about an unknowable reality by starting with reality and asserting he "knows" points #1 through #4 above. He accepts and uses the human process to grasp reality to form his conclusion that man in principle cannot grasp reality.
Norman E. Hill
NoraLyn Ltd.
Books By HillsLabels: Kant, Objectivism, Philosphy, reality
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