Objectivism And The Work Of Ayn Rand

Part I of Essay
Objectivism is a philosophy which developed around a woman named Ayn Rand in the 50s and 60s. She came to the country from Russia in the 1920s and worked in Hollywood as an extra in pictures and as a writer. Her most famous books are actually works of fiction, WE THE LIV ....

Part II of Essay
.... that man (sic) is a certain type of being: a rational animal. Man is the only form of being which must actually think in order to survive. This, to her, implies that it is RIGHT for man to think. The good is that which is useful to and promotes life. The life in question is ones own life. However, one doesn't have the responsibility for the lives of others, except in a negative sense.. not to interfere with the rights of others to pursue their own life. Ayn Rand wrote a great deal of non-fiction after making her name as a fiction author, ....