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Essay Galaxy - Objectivism and the Work of Ayn Rand
Objectivism and the Work of Ayn Rand
Objectivism is a philosophy which developed around a woman named Ayn Rand
in the 50s and 60s. She came to the country from Russia in the 1920s and
worked in Hollywood as an extra in pictures and as a writer. Her most
famous books are actually works of fiction, WE THE LIVING, THE
FOUNTAINHEAD, and ATLAS SHRUGGED. In them, she portrays her ideals of the
human character-- basically she is a RATIONAL EGOIST. She believes that
the self exists, and is ethically significant; in fact, that one should
live by the maxim of not sacrificing yourself to anyone, nor sacrificing
anyone to yourself.
The basic premises of objectivism are that existence exists, which mean
that an objective reality exists independent of consciousness. This
implies that consciousness PERCEIVES....
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