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- According to Rand, reason, and science were the only paths to genuine knowledge, not faith. Ironically, her philosophy of Objectivism has acquired adherents who display such extreme devotion that it itself has at times been described as a non-theistic religion.
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Jun 25, 2019 · According to Rand, reason, and science were the only paths to genuine knowledge, not faith. Ironically, her philosophy of Objectivism has acquired adherents who display such extreme devotion that it itself has at times been described as a non-theistic religion.
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The Lexicon’s entry Religion reflects Ayn Rand’s view that reason — not any form of mysticism or faith — is man’s only means of knowledge and guide to action. The excerpts touch on Rand’s atheism as well as her views on original sin, mercy, religious art, and two papal encyclicals concerning capitalism and contraception.
Ayn Rand is a defender of reason, and thus an opponent of religion and its embrace of faith. Throughout the essays in this book, both Rand and her associate Leonard Peikoff analyze this gulf from a variety of perspectives.
Rand’s virtue-focused rational egoism differs from traditional eudaimonism in that Rand regards ethics as an exact science. Rather than deriving her virtues from a vaguely defined human function, she takes “Man’s Life” – i.e. that which is required for the survival of a rational animal across its lifespan – as her standard of value .
Objectivism, philosophical system identified with the thought of the 20th-century Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand and popularized mainly through her commercially successful novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957). Its principal doctrines consist of versions of metaphysical.
Rand said that existence is the perceptually self-evident fact at the base of all other knowledge, i.e., that "existence exists". She further said that to be is to be something, that "existence is identity".
ARI, guided by our mission to advance the philosophy of Objectivism, upholds reality, reason and the morality of rational egoism, and opposes any attempt to base morality on faith or to inject religion into government.
