Objectivist values
Posted 7 February, 2008 in Philosophy
I don’t know who came up with this list, but I’m fairly sure it wasn’t Rand herself. As far as I’m aware this is the closest thing Rand said to the list below:
To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: reason, purpose and self-esteem.
I’m assuming this list was derived as a simple summary of how an Objectivist should live, based on Rand’s writings:
Can’t see any huge holes.
BTW, an adequate replacement for the Ten Commandments? I’ll let my Christian readers decide! 
(Later on I might do a comparison between this list and a few verses from the Good Book.)
2 comments to “Objectivist values”
fuzzy, February 8th, 2008 at 1:01 am:
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She went over all of them one by one in Galt’s speech, didn’t she?
Michael Sutcliffe, February 9th, 2008 at 7:53 pm:
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Yeah, you’re right. The values of the morality of reason from Galt’s speech.
I’ve got a deep dark secret…….I haven’t read Atlas Shrugged. Well, at least not like a novel. I haven’t read a fiction book in 15 years and I find it very unenjoyable to read fiction, even AR.
Despite the fact that Atlas Shrugged is the defining tome for Objectivists, I don’t feel I’ve missed all that much by not getting into it. I’m sure I don’t understand the full nature of the characters like the people who enthuse over the novel, but what excites me is the accuracy and completeness of the philosophy and how it applies to humanity right now in the real world.