Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Afternoon

So to understand what the objectivist view on morality is let us examine the god of 'objectivity' Rand herself. : "My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds from these. To live, man must hold three things as the ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge—Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve—Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues… — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged."
the link I drew this ....remark from can be found here , So let us analyze this point by point:
1) "Man must hold three things as ruling values: reason-purpose-selfesteem." Under these 'values', people like Usama Bin Laden are not guilty of anything at all. Nor was Hitler, or Stalin, or anyone. Infact every person in prison for any range of crimes should be understood that they are seeking their own understanding under Rands defenition of morality.
2) "These three 'values' imply and require all of man's virtues"-How is this true? Because my 'virtue is not the same as say Larry Flint, and if we operated under Flints law...it is safe to assume that virtue as Rand understands it is not going to be celebrated. Rand is generalizing way to much adn assuming everyone thinks kind of like she does. Big big mistake.

So understandingthis it is safe to assume that moral relativism is a direct offspring of accepting Rand at face value.
...More to follow.

2 Comments:

Blogger Christopher said...

Montanaman here...

Nice blog. I used the exact same template. I look forward to hearing about your adventures in K'stan.

Good luck!
MM

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Blogger Paul Motes said...

Thanks MM I appreciate a man of your intellect even coming to my blog.

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