WOHA Bjarke Ingels Group Alison Brooks Architects - Award winning architects, London What Architecture Is All About | SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists Now we're at the halfway point of our architectural debate over at my main blog 'Not PC,' here's a brief meditation on what architecture is all about. In five words or less: giving meaning to our lives. To quote the late Claude Megson, "If it doesn't have meaning, then you're just wanking." Read on now for the thousand-word meditation... . . *** WHEN HILLARY AND TENZING reached the top of Everest for the first time, the story goes that Tenzing fell to his knees and gave thanks to the spirits that had helped their journey; he prayed to each of the four winds, and he carefully placed in the ground a small stake on which prayer ribbons were attached. We each mark our territory in very different ways. Buildings are a concrete expression of values – the values of the people who designed, erected and occupy them. Like every art, architecture is a shortcut to our philosophy. “Architecture,” as Aldo van Eyck once said, “is about making a ‘home for man’.” WE NEED TO BUILD. .
6a architects Objectivism | SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists What is Objectivism? Let its founder speak first. Asked to specify Objectivism's essentials standing on one foot, Ayn Rand, standing on one foot, said: "Metaphysics: Objective Reality; Epistemology: Reason; Ethics: Self-interest; Politics: Capitalism." Writing about this episode later, she went on to say: "If you want this translated into simple language, it would read: 'Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed' or 'Wishing won't make it so.' Neither it can, and so it is. Ayn Rand herself, relative to other philosophers, didn't write "volumes." Along the way, she demolished several age-old dilemmas and dichotomies. She pointed out that volition is a causal agent, and so resolved the free will/determinism controversy. She pointed out that facts without logic are as useless as logic without facts, and so busted the rationalist/empiricist dichotomy. She exposed the lethal incoherence of requiring that we must know everything in order to know anything (see modern physics). Lindsay Perigo
JDS Architects Objectivism v. Existentialism - Chewing on Ideas - Objectivist Living Dr. Hazel E. Barnes, Ph.D is best known for translating Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness." She also wrote several books about him and existentialism. Sartre's existentialism would seem the very opposite of Ayn Rand's Objectivism. To Rand, man's potential is a path already forged. Rand is a systematic philosopher in the tradition of Plato and Aristotle. Is this existentialists' denial of pre-existing, external paths what Rand characterizes as "a vacuum of their own making..." "..their abdication from the realm of the intellect."? In "Atlas Shrugged," Rand's fictional character explains objective Reason: Quote Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precidence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking--that the mind is one's only judge of values and one's only guide of action--that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise. Theists have God. Rand also embraces the term "selfish." Dr. Nick
Carmody Groarke The Buffett Formula “The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” — Charlie Munger “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.” — Charlie Munger Most people go though life not really getting any smarter. Why? They simply won’t do the work required. It’s easy to come home, sit on the couch, watch TV and zone out until bed time rolls around. Sure you can go into the office the next day and discuss the details of last night’s episode of Mad Men or Game of Thrones. But you can acquire knowledge if you want it. In fact there is a simple formula, which if followed is almost certain to make you smarter over time. It involves a lot of hard work. We’ll call it the Buffett formula, named after Warren Buffett and his longtime business partner at Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger. “I can see, he can hear. We can learn a lot from them. How to get smarter Read. Warren Buffett says, “I just sit in my office and read all day.” What does that mean? The Omaha World-Herald writes: Eisner continues:
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