The Intrinsic, The Subjective, and The Objective

David Ross offers an engaging view of what he considers to be one of Ayn Rand’s most important contributions to philosophy: the objective-subjective-intrinsic trichotomy. In creating this trichotomy, Rand not only provided a method of identifying philosophical and psychoepistemological errors and bad ideas, but also illuminated the nature of objectivity and good ideas. Using examples from cinema, biology, ethics, and the culinary arts, Dr. Ross presents the basics of Intrinsicism and Subjectivism, both as philosophical approaches and as thinking styles, and demonstrates how they stand in stark contrast to the objective approach and to one another.