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Happiness— Ayn Rand Lexicon

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Browse Now . . . As your standard. By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose. Galt’s Speech,. For the New Intellectual. Galt’s Speech,. For the New Intellectual. Him—lightning calculators giving him the sum of his profit or loss. Since man has no automatic knowledge, he can have no automatic values; since he has no innate ideas, he can have no innate value judgments.

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Individualism— Ayn Rand Lexicon

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Browse Now . . . 8220;Racism,”. The Virtue of Selfishness. Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others. 8220;Textbook of Americanism,”. The Ayn Rand Column. 8220;The Soul of an Individualist,”. For the New Intellectual. 8220;What Is Capitalism? Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Ldquo;Common Good”. Web s...

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Ayn Rand’s Biographical Timeline— Ayn Rand Lexicon

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Browse Now . . . Ayn Rand’s Biographical Timeline. Father, Zinovy Zakarovich Rosenbaum, born in Breslitovsk, Russia (November 18). Mother, Anna Borisovna Kaplan, born in St. Petersburg (October 15). Parents married (May 3). Born in St. Petersburg (February 2; or, January 20 on the Julian calendar). Teaches self to read. Family moves to an apartment on Nevsky Prospekt at Znamenskaya Square. Attends first motion picture exhibition in St. Petersburg. Reads first romantic fiction,. Decides to become a writer.

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“Consumerism”— Ayn Rand Lexicon

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Browse Now . . . 8220;The Obliteration of Capitalism,”. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. There is no such thing as “consumers’ rights,” just as there can be no “rights” belonging to some special group or race and to no others. There are only. Man—rights possessed by every individual man and by. Men as individuals. The right to be protected from physical injury or fraud belongs to. Men, not merely to “consumers,” and does not require any special protection other than that provided by. If matters such as.

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Definitions— Ayn Rand Lexicon

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Browse Now . . . A definition is a statement that identifies the nature of the units subsumed under a concept. It is often said that definitions state the meaning of words. This is true, but it is not exact. A word is merely a visual-auditory symbol used to represent a concept; a word has no meaning other than that of the concept it symbolizes, and the meaning of a concept consists of its units. It is not words, but concepts that man defines—by specifying their referents. 8220;Definitions,”. The rules of...

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Abortion— Ayn Rand Lexicon

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Browse Now . . . Rights do not pertain to a. Being A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn). Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body? 8220;Of Living Death”. The Voice of Reason. The questi...

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Statism— Ayn Rand Lexicon

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Browse Now . . . The political expression of altruism is collectivism or. Which holds that man’s life and work belong to the state—to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation—and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good. 8220;Introducing Objectivism,”. Aug 1962, 35. 8220;War and Peace,”. Oct 1962, 44. The principle that man’s life belongs to the state. 8220;Conservatism: An Obituary,”. The use of physical ...

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Existence— Ayn Rand Lexicon

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Browse Now . . . Existence exists—and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness being the faculty of perceiving that which exists. Exists and that you. A thing is itself. You have never grasped the meaning of his statement. I am here to complete it: Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. Galt’s Speech,. For the New Intellectual. Reality is that which exists; the un...