Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Philosophy One of several doctrines holding that all reality is objective and external to the mind and that knowledge is reliably based on observed objects and events.
- noun An emphasis on objects rather than feelings or thoughts in literature or art.
- noun A school of modernist poetry emphasizing the poem itself as object, rather than focusing on its ostensible content.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In philosophy, the tendency to magnify the importance of the objective elements of cognition; especially, the doctrine that knowledge of the non-ego takes precedence in time, in logical sequence, and in order of importance of all knowledge of the ego.
- noun The character, in a work of art or in its author, of being objective, in the sense of dramatic, presenting things as they are and persons as they seem to themselves and to one another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
objective . - noun
Moral objectivism . - noun philosophy One of several
doctrines that holds that all of reality is objective and exists outside of the mind. - noun The specific objectivist philosophy created by novelist Ayn Rand, endorsing productive achievement and logical reasoning.
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Examples
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Wallace asks her to outline the idea she calls "objectivism."
News 2011
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Her theory of objectivism is correct as far as I’m concerned.
An Ideal Atlas Shrugged Film | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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"Luckily for me he doesn't agree with the game, he still seems to believe in objectivism."
Boing Boing 2008
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The canonization of Rand and the greedy and callous selfishness called objectivism and the absorption of the absurd crock of horseshit came to become dogma in America where monopoly and the destruction of economies are the end result of this sort of sociopathic behavior.
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Another new book, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns, examines Rand's natural attraction for conservatives — Alan Greenspan was a member of the Saturday-night salon she held in her New York apartment (though William F. Buckley called objectivism "stillborn" in a column he wrote when she died).
Atlas Hugged 2009
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But a Rand expert says the blog post displays a misreading of the author's philosophy, known as objectivism.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed SIMON HOUPT 2011
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But a Rand expert says the blog post displays a misreading of the author's philosophy, known as objectivism.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed SIMON HOUPT 2011
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BioShock 1, where we didn't have Andrew Ryan and the notion of objectivism -- we leave ourselves very open for evolution.
Joystiq 2010
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In the Randian ethos, called objectivism, the only real morality is self-interest, and society is divided into groups who are efficiently self-interested (ie, the rich) and the
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BioShock 1, where we didn't have Andrew Ryan and the notion of objectivism -- we leave ourselves very open for evolution.
Joystiq 2010
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