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 reality, but does not CREATE reality. We are forc....

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