RRD:I wonder if he cried? Speaker Boehner: 'This is the Best Deal We Could Get" - Hotline On Call http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/04/speaker-boehner-1.php Ayn Rand coined the phrase the "Metaphysical vs. Man-Made ",(the relevant excerpt is below.fn1)What is the relevance of this to the budget negotiations,you ask?Rather than looking at objective reality & determining what needs to be done and then doing everything possible to achieve it,Boehner is looking at what is "possible",as defined by the whims of his enemies.In essence the Democrats told him that this was all they would permit him,and rather than fight them,he accepted their whims as some kind of unalterable fact of nature.
Metaphysical vs. Man-Made — Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/metaphysical_vs_man-made.html
...."It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man -made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary. Man is not omniscient or infallible: he can make innocent errors through lack of knowledge, or he can lie, cheat and fake. The manmade may be a product of genius, perceptiveness, ingenuity—or it may be a product of stupidity, deception, malice, evil. One man may be right and everyone else wrong, or vice versa (or any numerical division in between). Nature does not give man any automatic guarantee of the truth of his judgments (and this is a metaphysically given fact, which must be accepted). Who, then, is to judge? Each man, to the best of his ability and honesty. What is his standard of judgment ? The metaphysically given . The metaphysically given cannot be true or false, it simply is—and man determines the truth or falsehood of his judgments by whether the
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correspond to or contradict the facts of reality. The metaphysically given cannot be right or wrong—it is the standard of right or wrong, by which a (rational) man judges his goals, his values, his choices. The metaphysically given is, was, will be, and had to be. Nothing made by man had to be: it was made by choice."....
Metaphysical vs. Man-Made — Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/metaphysical_vs_man-made.html
...."It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man -made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary. Man is not omniscient or infallible: he can make innocent errors through lack of knowledge, or he can lie, cheat and fake. The manmade may be a product of genius, perceptiveness, ingenuity—or it may be a product of stupidity, deception, malice, evil. One man may be right and everyone else wrong, or vice versa (or any numerical division in between). Nature does not give man any automatic guarantee of the truth of his judgments (and this is a metaphysically given fact, which must be accepted). Who, then, is to judge? Each man, to the best of his ability and honesty. What is his standard of judgment ? The metaphysically given . The metaphysically given cannot be true or false, it simply is—and man determines the truth or falsehood of his judgments by whether the
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correspond to or contradict the facts of reality. The metaphysically given cannot be right or wrong—it is the standard of right or wrong, by which a (rational) man judges his goals, his values, his choices. The metaphysically given is, was, will be, and had to be. Nothing made by man had to be: it was made by choice."....
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