2. Noun. Moral objectivism. ¹
3. Noun. (philosophy) One of several doctrines that holds that all of reality is objective and exists outside of the mind. ¹
4. Noun. The specific objectivist philosophy created by novelist Ayn Rand, endorsing productive achievement and logical reasoning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Objectivism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Objectivism
Literary usage of Objectivism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"Faced like Bakunin and Belinskii with the problem of subjectivism versus objectivism,
... over of the crude contrast between subjectivism and objectivism. ..."
2. History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation by James Mark Baldwin (1913)
"... Rise of objectivism.—It would seem that Aristotle (384-322 BC),1 without doubt
the greatest scientific man, if not also the greatest speculative genius, ..."
3. Introduction to Philosophy by Oswald Külpe (1897)
"Subjectivism and objectivism. 1. (1) Subjectivism defines the end of moral action
as a subjective state, either of the agent himself or of other individuals ..."
4. Scientific Theism by Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1885)
"Is it not time to lay this "Cock-lane Ghost" of the Unknowable, and return to
the grand seriousness and simplicity of Greek objectivism? § 29. ..."
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