Ayn Rand Objectivism

Ayn Rand is amazing because of her philosophy of objectivism and the fact that she is both a novelist and a philosopher. She has one of the most interesting life. Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation. She described its essence as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." Ayn Rand wrote 32 novels. Some are fiction, some are stories that she has encountered over her lifetime. Some of those novels are We The Living and the famous one Atlas Shrugged. One of

She received an honorary doctorate from Lewis & Clark College. She also began delivering annual lectures at the Ford Hall Forum, responding afterward to questions from the audience. During these speeches and question and answer sessions, she often took controversial stances on political and social issues of the day. These included supporting abortion rights, opposing the Vietnam War and the military draft (but condemning many draft dodgers as "bums"), supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War Of 1973 against a the alliance of Arab nations as "civilized men fighting savages",saying European colonists had the right to develop land taken from American Indians, and calling homosexuality "immoral" and "disgusting", while also advocating the repeal of all laws about it. She also pushed several Republican candidates for President of the United States, most strongly Barry Goldwater in 1964, whose candidacy she promoted in several articles for The Objectivist