Thinking Outside of the Box in Objectivism

Objectivism as a philosophy holds reality, reason, a man in every man, and the ideal political-economic system as an ideal thought of what men think. The reality of objectivism exists absolute facts, and independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears. Ayn Rand uses her philosophy, objectivism, in characterizing men for an example, reason symbolizes men that are perceiving reality in his own source of knowledge that is only guided into action and his basic overall meaning of survival. In different men, men have a different end in themselves rather than what other men have in them.

Objectivism, as defined by Ayn Rand, is “the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute ” (Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged). The main goal in participating in Objectivism is achieving happiness. However, it takes the thought process that happiness is not achieved only by wish or by happy thoughts. Rather, happiness is achieved by ignoring the opinions of others, knowing your worth, doing what you love and love what you do, and expressing the gratitude.

During the time Objectivism was created, in 1962, she started “The Objectivist Newsletter” which was later called “ The Objectivist”, to present her perspective point of view. Throughout time, a philosopher name Leonard Peikoff which is also Ayn’s designer, later gave her philosophy more formal structure to have a better clarification.

Ayn Rand, an uncompromising Russian philosopher of many different aspects of individuals freedom and enlightened self-interest. Ayn quickly developed a philosophical system called Objectivism, which has affected many lives over the last half-century. For example, A farmer who works hard to sustain his every need himself. Another example would be, engaging in actions that will lead to long term happiness as opposed to the short term.

Although Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism was intended a completed philosophy and its heroes attracted admiration as ideal thoughts and its greatest influence has been political.

In addition to putting forth an effort of both writing her essays and carefully editing led her to end it and start “ The Ayn Rand Letter “ to express herself. Throughout her career, she occasionally lectured and made other public appearances to explain the actual reasons behind her philosophy. Ayn’s health problems forced her to end “ The Ayn Rand Letter “ a few years later and her career started to take a twist. In 1979, Rand began a script for an Atlas Shrugged film but before she could even try to succeed farther into her script, she passed of lung cancer.

Moreover, Objectivism holds that some individuals have something valuable to contribute. The new concept of objectivism shapes not only her view of concepts and values but through the entire ethics and the whole philosophic system. The reality of objectivism exists absolute facts, and independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears. Ayn Rand uses her philosophy, objectivism, in characterizing men for an example, reason symbolizes men that are perceiving reality in his own source of knowledge that is only guided into action and his basic overall meaning of survival. For these reasons above, she called the system “Objectivism”.

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