Objectivism Objectivism can be broken into 5 main categories. They are Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. Each of these makes up Ayn Rand’s philosophy, which is called objectivism. Metaphysics is the belief that everything one knows they know only because they believe it to be true. Everything that is known can’t be truly proven to be true because it is based on our perception of things. If a tabletop is hard, it is only because one perceives it to be hard and has been told that it is so. If someone burns their hand on a hot iron they could actually be freezing their hand but our senses tell us it hurts and not until the influence of everyone else’s thoughts, do you know that it burns rather then freezes. Epistemology says that the only way of learning is through reason. Everything we know is perce....

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