Notes for Revision and Expansion
Of “Objectivism and Theism”
(In Progress)
 
Contents
Part One
• 00a — Introduction
• 00b — History of the Argument 
• 01a— Objectivism and Theism (revised)
  (A transcript of the unrevised version of the argument is available on-line here
  and the original audio is available here.)
 
Part Two
• 02a— Objections Based on Axiomatics
• 03a— Objections Based on Natural Selection 
• 03b— Miscellaneous Objections, Part 1 
NNN • 03c— Miscellaneous Objections, Part 2  
• 03d— Summary: Objectivism presupposes theism 
• 04a— Various Meanings of “Faith” 
• 04b— God and Infinity 
• 04c— God and Pure Consciousness  
• 05a— God and Omnipotence (1): Omnipotence and the Nature of Things 
• 05b— God and Omnipotence (2): Omnipotence and Contradiction   
• 05c— God and Omnipotence (3): A Historical Digression 
• 05d— Contradiction and Miracles; The Fatalist Fallacy; Natural Law  
• 06a— God, Omniscience, and Freedom  
• 06b— God, Omniscience, and Non-Effort  
• 06c— God, Goodness, and Freedom
• 07— Disasters, Pain, Evil — In Progress (most recent addition: April 25, 2021) 
• 07a— Negative Theology 
 
Part Three
• 08a— The First Cause Argument 
• 08b— An Objectivist Version of the First Cause Argument 
• 08c— Some Attributes of the First Cause 
• 09a— Life, Design, Retrospect  
• 09b— Agnosticism, Heaven, Responsibility, Pessimism, Foxholes
• 10a— Anaesthesia  
• 11a— Where Do We Go from Here / Historical Considerations 
• 11b— Ayn Rand on Competition
• 11c— Ayn Rand on Art and the Expression of the Moral Ideal 
• 12a— Afterword: On Prayer
• 12b— Afterword: Sample Prayers
 
Part Four 
— Appendices (by Ronald N. Neff)
• 13— Introduction, with a Prolegomemon to Attempts to Refute Kiefer
• 14— Sacrifice
• 15— Objectivism and Love, Service to Others, and Altruism
• 16— Objectivism and Mercy, Pity, and Forgiveness
• 17— God, the Supernatural, the Natural, and Reason
• 18— Kant and Faith 
• 19a— A Discussion by Tibor Machan
• 19b— Reply to Tibor Machan
• 20— Original Sin

  		   † Omniscience is a subjectivist concept (The primacy of existence over consciousness)
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