AshG
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I've been digging deeper into the works of Ayn Rand in an attempt to understand some of the viewpoints here. The more I try to wrap my head around Randian Objectivism, the more confused I become.
How do those of you who hold Rand in such high esteem deal with the cognitive and spiritual dissonances created by such conflicting ideologies?
And how many of you don't even realize that you operate in Rand's ideology?
Randian Objectivism:
How do those of you who hold Rand in such high esteem deal with the cognitive and spiritual dissonances created by such conflicting ideologies?
And how many of you don't even realize that you operate in Rand's ideology?
Randian Objectivism:
- What is, is. No manner of belief or philosophical stance can make something what it is not.
- There is a single, secular truth to all things.
- There is no transcendent future, only now
- Preservation and advancement of self is the most moral path through life
- To be beholden to no one for anything is the chief end to living
- What's yours is yours; anyone who wants any of it for any reason is a thief
- There are deeper meanings and causal relationships in almost every situation; seek, and you shall find
- The now is but an infinitesimally short moment in eternity for all humanity
- God is at the center of all things, and you come to Him through Christ
- Nothing actually belongs to you, you are merely the steward for a short moment. Your reward is added to by giving it away and waits for you in eternity
- Give Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's. If a man asks for your coat, etc.
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