Ayn Rand stated in her essay 'Causality versus Duty': “God said: Take what you want, and pay for it”. As a student of IE, we are all aspiring a professional career, life-enhancing moments, relationships, and happiness in general. In my opinion, Rand’s moral model of objectivism is a necessary approach for our pursuit as a student. She explained in her essay that 'God' is actually the reality and “Take what you want” the values we have chosen. All the goals...
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Egoism in philosophical ethics is having a certain motivation or undertaking an activity that is best suited for you but helps the other person as well, therefore it doesn't make you look selfish; however, it actually is. Egoism is a normative perspective theory, and it is cleared up by two versions. Version one is individual ethical egoism, this portrays having your self-interest only and a couple of others but mostly just focusing on you. This is why it’s called an...
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What does it mean to do the right thing? Follow three rules: do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care, this a powerful statement of my mother that I will always keep in my mind. Doing the right thing is a beautiful stating point but I am going to define it in a wonderful way according to what different philosophers have stated about it. This essay will express the ideas and statements of...
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Ayn Rand (her real name is Alice O'Connor) was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Widely known for her work 'Atlas Shrugged'. A long-time resident of New York City, Rand, 77, was found dead in her New York City residence this morning. Her cause of death has is said to be heart failure. She is buried next to her husband at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla,...
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Introduction Ayn Rand’s philosophy suggested that people should work hard to achieve a life of purpose and productiveness, but she also wrote that genuine self esteem is earned by pursuing happiness as a person’s primary goal. She also said that our purpose is not to take care of others, but it is to take care of our own happiness. Her philosophy could be understood as “don’t try to be your brother’s keeper or to force him to be yours” (https://www.aynrand.org/ideas/overview)....
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Biography Ayn Rand born in Russia in 1905. She was writer whose commercially effective novels persuading individualism and capitalism were influential among right-wingers and libertarians and it was popular for youth generations in the USA from the middle of the twentieth century . Her dad was a thriving druggist. After being mentored at home, Alissa Rosenbaum, the oldest of 3 children, was sign in an innovator educational institution , where she shined intellectual but was socially remote. Following the Russian...
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Based on the philosophy proposed by Ayn Rand in his book the poem, we will seek to prove how wrong this philosophy can be, Ayn Rand's philosophy is quite individual, with that mutual support would not be given and on the contrary, this thought could provoke terrible facts and horrible dictatorships. Clear examples of these we see in various bad acts of people, as they can be attacked against the good of another person, another clear example are dictatorships since...
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My personal philosophy revolves around individualism and egoism. I am a very greedy and lustful person. I have an extreme passion for success, wealth, and most importantly, the accumulation of money. I act in my own self-interests because I feel that my life revolves around me; I should not be forced or guilted into satisfying the needs and wants of others. I am very selfish and that’s not a bad thing because I love and cherish my life more than...
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One reason that they died that early could possibly be that they don’t receive as much as they need to survive due to them living in the Home of the Useless. Another reason could be that they had nothing to do. Besides of course, looking back on their life full of hard work, sadness, and loneliness. Things such as medicine, technology, diets, etc., were not available in the time period that this took place. Just like how in the Dark...
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“War. Death. Despair. Oppression. Environmental ruin. Yup, when it comes to demoralizing literature, dystopian novels have it all! Yet many of us love this genre, and there are good reasons we do” states The Huffington Post. Dystopian novels are loved among many people, but there is also criticism of having these negative novels. Dystopian novels such as Anthem by Ayn Rand and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury are popular in schools. There are many purposes of teaching these novels in...
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Morality is the yardstick with which we judge our actions to be right or wrong. It is also the code of values to guide man’s choices and actions (Rand, 1957). There are two main views to morality; objective morality and subjective morality (Novella, 2013). Objective morality holds the belief that there are universal set laws that determine the rightness and wrongness of an action or choice while subjective morality believes that there are no set laws and that judgement of...
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Immanuel Kant has been one of the more famous and influential philosophers from the last few centuries. He has influenced the minds of other philosophers from the past or present with his ideas in philosophy. His major contributions in philosophy have been to the topics of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics to name just a few. He has been one of the most famous philosophers to debate and let his beliefs of morality be known. One of his main beliefs...
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As members of society, we gravitate toward certain decision-making based on our emotions as well as our surroundings. Physiological egoism argues that the reason we do all things is for ourselves. That is, everything we do is out of self-interest. On the other hand, ethical egoism makes a moral claim about how life ought to be lived. “According to ethical egoists, a person is always justified in doing whatever is in his own interests, regardless of the effect on others'...
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