Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand, The Objectivist Ethics, 231

Like most of Rand's statements, this one could cause great emotional upset in people who would look at it as selfish and uncharitable. Rand has often been understood for her philosophy of "Objectivism" which she suggests is an integrated system of thought that defines the abstract principles by which a man must

think and act if he is to live the life proper to man (Doherty, 1997).

Although she espoused this in her novels such as "The Fountainhead" (1943) and "Atlas Shrugged" (1957), it is excellently expressed in the novella "Anthem." In that book, the main character exists in a time of the future, when the word "I" has been banned. Chapter 11 becomes first person and the word "I" becomes almost a mantra. "I am. I think. I will" is the way the chapter starts, and the drama of that chapter is exciting.

"Reality, the external world, exists independent of man's consciousness, independent of any observer's knowledge, beliefs,

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