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RE: SELFISHNESS AS A VIRTUE?

in #philosophy6 years ago

WHO DEFINES RIGHT OR WRONG?, ITS PERCEPTION.

Objectivism actually offers an objective standard of value.

The Objectivist ethics holds man’s life as the standard of value—and his own life as the ethical purpose of every individual man.

The difference between “standard” and “purpose” in this context is as follows: a “standard” is an abstract principle that serves as a measurement or gauge to guide a man’s choices in the achievement of a concrete, specific purpose. “That which is required for the survival of man qua man” is an abstract principle that applies to every individual man. The task of applying this principle to a concrete, specific purpose—the purpose of living a life proper to a rational being—belongs to every individual man, and the life he has to live is his own.

Man must choose his actions, values and goals by the standard of that which is proper to man—in order to achieve, maintain, fulfill and enjoy that ultimate value, that end in itself, which is his own life.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/standard_of_value.html

Overall you don't show a deep understanding of Objectivism. So I can't give you an upvote. But I hope you look more closely into the ideas.

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