Objectivist (aka Common Sense) Theory: I don't Like It

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Objectivist (aka Common Sense) Theory: I Don’t Like It!

From the Internet I took this information about Objectivist (that is often referred to as Common Sense) Theory

What is the Objectivist Theory of Knowledge (Epistemology)? http://www.objectivistcenter.org by William Thomas

“Reason is the faculty which… identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses. Reason integrates man's perceptions by means of forming abstractions or conceptions, thus raising man's knowledge from the perceptual level, which he shares with animals, to the conceptual level, which he alone can reach. The method which reason employs in this process is logic”and logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

”Ayn Rand "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World," in Philosophy, Who Needs It? p. 62.”

Also from the Internet I took this information about Faculty Psychology. http://employees.csbsju.edu/esass/facultypsychology.htm

Faculty Psychology is a point of view that became prevalent in the eighteenth century and its effects are strongly evidenced still today. The faculties of mind; will, emotions, and intellect were considered to be autonomous and the elements even considered to be like people with an appropriate personality and job.

The mind, especially the intellect, was considered to be somewhat like a muscle that needed training and exercise for proper functioning. The “faculties” of mind might be considered as comprising a ‘Society of Mind’. This society consisted of Perception, Imagination, Feeling, Will, Understanding, Memory, and Reason.

The external, ‘objective’, world was filled with material objects and the internal, ‘subjective’, world was filled with mental entities, i.e. thoughts, ideas, emotions, sensations, and feelings.

Each faculty had a personality: Perception was methodical and reliable, Imagination was generally reliable but often playful, Feeling is undisciplined and volatile, Understanding is calm, sober, and reliable; etc.

Faculty Psychology fell out of favor but there remain significant vestiges yet today.

It appears to me that OT is FP and also that OT considers mind to be a supernatural entity different in kind from the body. Furthermore perception is a function of the body and conception is a function of mind. Thus perception is natural and conception is supernatural. Why else is perception part of the animal world and conception is of the supernatural world? I assume that since logic is a work of the mind that logic is supernatural.

How does OT reconcile a human that is different in kind with Darwin’s theory? Does OT require the existence of a supernatural creator?

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See Voltaire's Bastards, John Ralston Saul, for a complete description on how the Age of Reason and it's theories have created the disaster we call society today.