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John Galt’s Speech from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”. For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know ...
- Author's Note
- The Moral Crisis ("You Have Heard It Said That This Is An Age of Moral Crisis.")
- The Content of A Rational Moral Code ("My Morality, The Morality of Reason....")
- Transition
- The Doctrine of Original Sin
- The Doctrine of Sacrifice ("Whoever Is Now Within Reach of My Voice....")
- Sacrifice and The Unearned ("You Who Have No Standard of Self-Esteem....")
- The Psychology of The Mystics ("Did You Wonder What Is Wrong with The World?")
- About The Author
In Atlas Shrugged, the hero, John Galt, makes a radio speech to the nation revealing the strike of the producers and explaining its rationale. The speech resolves the philosophical mystery of the plot: Why are the most productive people leaving their work and disappearing from society? As such, it provides a comprehensive introduction to Ayn Rand's...
This is an age of moral crisis, brought about by the doctrine of sacrifice. Galt has led a strike to protest that doctrine and to remove the men of justice, independence, reason, wealth, and self-esteem -- the men of the mind. The crisis demands the discovery of a proper morality. The essence of previous moral codes is to demand that you surrende...
The morality of reason follows from the axiom that existence exists and the choice to live. Reason, purpose, and self-esteem are cardinal values. These values imply and require the virtues of rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, and pride.But virtue is not its own reward. Life is the reward of virtue, and happines...
The producers will no longer work under threat of coercion. The producers are motivated by positive values -- life, happiness, achievement. Their exploiters are motivated by negatives -- death, misery, destruction. Opposed to the Morality of Life is the Morality of Death, which demands that man atone for the guilt of being human by sacrificing his ...
The motive of the doctrine is to instill guilt and thus nullify man's right to question moral commands. That which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. In holding that man is innately evil, the Doctrine of Original Sin negates morality, nature, justice, and reason. The doctrine says that man is evil because he p...
Sacrifice is the surrender of value -- of a higher value to a lower one, or of the good to the evil. The code is impossible to practice because it would lead to death, and thus moral perfection is impossible to man. The Doctrine of Sacrifice cannot provide man with an interest in being good. Since man is in fact an indivisible unity of matter and c...
If you must act to benefit others, why is it acceptable for others to accept such benefits? Because they did not earn them. At its core, the Doctrine of Sacrifice is a doctrine that seeks the unearned. Lack of value gives one a claim upon those who possess value. The doctrine elevates failure, weakness, need, incompetence, suffering, vice, and irra...
The mystics of muscle and of spirit have had the same motive throughout history: to undercut your mind and to rule you by force. Having surrendered their own judgment to avoid clashes with others, they regard the judgments of others as a power superior to reason, believing that others have a mysterious link with reality. To control reality, they mu...
David Kelley David Kelley is the founder of The Atlas Society. A professional philosopher, teacher, and best-selling author, he has been a leading proponent of Objectivism for more than 25 years.
Dec 7, 2023 · John Galt’s Speech, as Onkar Ghate well explains in the preceding essay, has an “integral role . . . in the action and story of Atlas Shrugged.” 3 As Ghate relates, Galt announces to the world that he has taken the men of the mind on strike and explains the reasons and rightness of their strike. 4 Galt ascribes the collapse of the world ...
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“This Is John Galt Speaking” By Ayn Rand Excerpt from Atlas Shrugged (1957) L adies and gentlemen: Mr. Thompson will not speak to you tonight. His time is up. I have taken it over. You were to hear a report on the world crisis. That is what you are going to hear. For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt ...
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The John Galt speech, like Roark’s speech in Rand’s other major novel, The Fountainhead, forms the philosophical heart of the novel and the basis for much of Rand’s philosophy. The central tenet is that reason, not faith or emotion, forms the basis of human prosperity.
May 25, 2017 · In this lecture course, available at ARI’s eStore, Ghate studies Galt’s speech and offers an illuminating breakdown of its component parts to show why each is essential to the novel. He considers how its abstract philosophical points explain events in the story, and he examines Rand’s precise formulations of such questions as why altruism ...
