Author: Nicholas Gramlich

One of the more widely accepted moral codes is that of altruism. In altruism, it is evil to live for yourself and, instead, one should live for others. However, in spite of how many people pursue its ends, altruism is a moral code that creates problems and injustices. Often, when people think of altruism, they Read More …

Does doing the right thing free you or constrain you? Morality is often seen as a rigid code in which choices are stymied for the sake of the good, sometimes to the frustration of the actors. Yet, there’s nothing that presumes that morality has to be a constraining process. Morality is simply that which one Read More …

Complexity is confronted daily in human lives. Indeed, complexity is omnipresent in existence. Focusing on the ground for a moment will incur a list of many things, not one, and, once atomic structure is taken into account, one can assume complexity is ubiquitous. What people perceive themselves are objects composed of many smaller things, and Read More …

The act of judgment to some degree can’t be helped. Judgment is such a necessity of existence that one must engage it merely in the reading of this sentence, in getting up in the morning, and in brushing one’s teeth. To judge, one must affirm one’s correctness; one must affirm oneself. This leads to the Read More …

Life exists for itself, as a reaffirmation of that that merely exists itself. Existence begets existence. Life forms pass through the ages, one onto the other. The decay or entropy around one is merely unaccounted natural order that cannot be helped. As the sun and stars and planets will not last, why should you last? Read More …

With a body hewn by the ages,A changing I had no part in,An effort I could not observe,Among the countless made,I had no choice in what it would be,It couldn’t be but through sanction,A passing through eternity’s gauges, Time is evidence of its efficacy,Eyes that are meant to see,Hands that are meant to grasp,Mind that Read More …

To live the life of the soullessThat horrid beasts would consume my fleshTheir wills overmatching mineWith waning love, I let out my lightA span of water poured into a hole

Merriam Webster defines charity as “generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering.” Many triumph charity as the height of what’s good, but of what good or use is charity to an egoist? Charity for an egoist is a means to help those one values who are in need or suffering. It’s a virtue Read More …

Some people were wondering what place virtues like “loyalty,” etc., would have in the Objectivist ethics. Below is the best I could draw up into how minor or less fundamental virtues may take place in the Objectivist ethics. You will notice that they are derivatives of the more fundamental virtues, as I put six fundamental Read More …

The point of evil people is to take your time. By definition and consequence, an evil person is a person one ought not deal with. Evil is what one ought not do. It takes time to think and find what one ought do. Simply thinking about an evil person or evil is to think about Read More …