Ayn Rand Purpose of Morality
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Tag: ethics
Bridging the Gap between Ayn Rand and Jordan Peterson
Recently, Jordan Peterson has been mentioning and asking questions about Ayn Rand on his show’s guests. Some of these comments prompted a response from the…
Ayn Rand Rational Action of an Individual
“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual,…
Ayn Rand Rational Self Interest
“When one speaks of man’s right to exist for his own sake, for his own rational self-interest, most people assume automatically that this means his…
Ayn Rand on Hedonism
“Hedonism is the doctrine which holds that the good is whatever gives you pleasure and, therefore, pleasure is the standard of morality. Objectivism holds that…
ObjectoBot Original: Any Rand Office Meme
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
Ayn Rand on what is Slavery?
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or…
Ayn Rand on What Rights Are
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully and two hundred years have not…
Ayn Rand, The Battle for Morality
“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs…
Ayn Rand, what is Morality?
“What is morality? Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is…
Objectivist ethics outside of the non-initiation of force principle.
Some libertarians hold the non-initiation of force principle as an axiom or like a golden rule. They refer to this principle as the NAP, or…
Ayn Rand on the Welfare State
Morally and economically, the welfare state creates an ever accelerating downward pull. Morally, the chance to satisfy demands by force spreads the demands wider and…
Ayn Rand the purpose of Morality
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
When someone says that healthcare is a right.
Bernie Sanders, for instance, says this all the time. “The U.S. is the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee healthcare for all as…
Why is AOC touting Marx’s defunct Labor Theory of Value?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.” When asked to elaborate she explained that billionaires do…
It’s ridiculous to complain about the income inequality that emerges from free, voluntary transactions.
A man who catches 1000 fish can feed more people than a man who catches 10. Even if the man who caught 1000 fish exerted…
The morality of the 2nd Amendment
When the constitution was written, and this cannot be repeated enough, it was a concerted effort to put limits on government action. The constitution is…
Libertarian’s appeasement of progressive’s attack on selfishness is a losing tactic
An article on reason.com, this one, tries to deflect progressive attacks on libertarianism. It explains why libertarianism is not equal to selfishness, and that critics…