http://mises.org/Community/groups/aristotelian_liberals/default.aspxUnder procrastination...enCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://mises.org/Community/groups/aristotelian_liberals/forum/p/2610/265611.aspx#265611Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:38:28 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:265611Eudaimonist<p>I just happened to surf on in and noticed this question.&nbsp; I&#39;m months late in replying to it!&nbsp; I hope you are still around.</p> <p>I&#39;m a member of the Fellowship of Reason (FOR).&nbsp;&nbsp;Most&nbsp;members are reasonably&nbsp;described as&nbsp;&quot;eudaimonist post-Objectivists&quot;, and that term describes me too.&nbsp; If you are one&nbsp;as well, you&#39;d fit right in, no problem.</p> <p>FOR&nbsp;is a philosophical community that aims to fill some of the roles for nontheists&nbsp;that church groups&nbsp;play in the lives of theists.&nbsp; However, they don&#39;t perform &quot;charity work&quot; (an Ayn Rand influence), but focus instead on providing opportunities for&nbsp;self-development and for socializing with other eudaimonists.&nbsp; For example, they hold a philosophy night where&nbsp;interested members&nbsp;study the ideas of&nbsp;some philosopher, and&nbsp;usually not an&nbsp;Objectivist one!&nbsp; The eudaimonists at FOR generally respect Ayn Rand&#39;s accomplishments in philosophy, but seek to expand their intellectual&nbsp;horizons.</p> <p>Also, FOR is not a political activist group.&nbsp; (Members may do or vote for&nbsp;whatever they want as private individuals, of course.)&nbsp; While the majority hold &quot;libertarian&quot; (or Aristotelian liberal) political views, there is no political litmus test for membership.&nbsp; You&#39;ll find anarchocapitalists, constitutional&nbsp;minarchists, and whatnot.</p> <p>I highly recommend the Fellowship of Reason.</p>