Welcome to Objectivism in the Debate Round. While Ayn Rand wrote her best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, more than 40 years ago, her ideas continue to this day to inspire and inform young and old alike. While many read her novels in high school, some take a step further and begin to apply her ideas to their thinking. Nowhere is this more true than in high school debate. Her philosophy, Objectivism, is fast becoming an argument of preference for Lincoln-Douglas and policy debaters, alike. As a radically unique world view, Objectivism helps debaters to stand out from the crowd and offer unconventional but cogent arguments. As a rational and comprehensive philosophical framework, Objectivism gives debaters the tools they need to analyze and evaluate a multiplicity of opposing viewpoints. As a philosophy which sticks to the facts, Objectivism grounds a debaters position in the evidence of reality. This Web site is dedicated to presenting a wide array of information about applying Objectivism to debate. Also present is an array of leads to further information on the philosophy of Objectivism as such. |
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