2017年6月14日 · But pride must be earned–and it is earned by practicing and living up to all of the other Objectivist virtues. Rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, and pride.

2023年3月30日 · Just like all the colors ultimately meld together to express pure, white light—all the Objectivist virtues meld together to express rationality, the adherence to reason in every facet and issue in one’s life. So, let’s begin: Productivity is the red color within the spectrum of rationality. Like the warmth and energy of red light ...

“The Objectivist Ethics,” The Virtue of Selfishness, 17 Since a value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and the amount of possible action is limited by the duration of one’s lifespan, it is a part of one’s life that one invests in everything one values. The years, months, days or hours of thought, of interest, of action ...

An excerpt from chapter 8 on Virtue from Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff. “Rationality” is a broad abstraction. Now we must learn more fully how to apply it to the concrete choices of human life. We must study the derivative virtues (and values) recognized by the Objectivist ethics.

The three cardinal values of the Objectivist ethics — the three values which, together, are the means to and the realization of one’s ultimate value, one’s own life — are: Reason, Purpose, Self-Esteem, with their three corresponding virtues: Rationality, Productiveness, Pride.

In this collection of talks, Tara Smith and Onkar Ghate survey three of the moral virtues that are most distinctive to the Objectivist ethics: independence, pride and productiveness. Lastly, Dr. Smith shows how some character traits (kindness, generosity and charity) are not moral virtues in principle (even though it can sometimes be good to be […]

2010年6月8日 · The chief Objectivist virtues are rationality, integrity, honesty (with self and others), justice, independence, productiveness, and pride. Rationality, one’s total commitment … to the maintenance of a full mental focus in all issues, in all choices … to the fullest perception of reality within one’s power, (1961b: 28)

Objectivism is fully secular and absolutist; it is neither liberal nor conservative nor anywhere in between. It recognizes and upholds the secular (this-worldly) source and nature of moral principles and the secular moral foundations of a fully free, fully civilized society. Morally, Objectivism advocates the virtues of rational self-interest—

In this collection of talks, Tara Smith and Onkar Ghate survey three of the moral virtues that are most distinctive to the Objectivist ethics: independence, pride and productiveness. Lastly, Dr. Smith shows how some character traits (kindness, generosity and charity) are not moral virtues in principle (even though it can sometimes be good to be ...

2010年5月20日 · Endnotes. 1 Cf. Ayn Rand, For the New Intellectual (New York: Signet, 1963), p. 121.. 2 Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics,” in The Virtue of Selfishness (New York: Signet, 1964), p. 25. 3 See Rand, “The Ethics of Emergencies,” in The Virtue of Selfishness, p.50. [groups_can capability="access_html"] 4 Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics,” pp. 27–28.. 5 Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism: The ...