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The Objectivist ethics proudly advocates and upholds rational selfishness — which means: the values required for man’s survival qua man — which means: the values required for human survival — not the values produced by the desires, the emotions, the “aspirations,” the feelings, the whims or the needs of irrational brutes, who have ...
Objectivism's main tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception (see direct and indirect realism ), that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of on...
Rand argues that ethics is a science, as it is based on objectively identifiable facts. Humans are not born with instincts and they have a volitional consciousness, so they must identify conceptually what is good for them and commit to policies of action.
Jun 15, 2010 · The key principle of the Objectivist ethics is rationality, as against mysticism and whim. The ethics is a code of benevolence and justice toward other people: holding evil-doers to account for their vices, but treating rational and productive people with good will and generosity.
Objectivist ethics. In ethics, Rand held a vaguely Aristotelian theory of virtue based on a teleological conception of living organisms, including humans. A value, according to Rand, is “that which one acts to gain and/or keep.”
Choice is a type of causality. It is the nature of reason, our distinctive form of consciousness, to be volitional; its operation is up to us. Rand draws a sharp distinction between that which is caused by human choice – “ the man-made ,” and that which is not – “ the metaphysically given .”
The Objectivist ethics holds that human good does not require human sacrifices and cannot be achieved by the sacrifice of anyone to anyone. It holds that the rational interests of men do not clash — that there is no conflict of interests among men who do not desire the unearned, who do not make sacrifices nor accept them, who deal with one ...
