Ayn Rand was an exceptionally brilliant writer and philosopher who was very much ahead of her time. Someday, the rest of humankind will recognize her brilliance and take for granted as common sense the ideals she wrote about.
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I am kind of confused, let's say you want to date someone, and you set that as a goal. Wouldn't that be because you FEEL attraction, instead of reason? I am still learning objectivism, my apologies.
The purpose of all ethics and all action on Earth is survival and the corollary, Happiness. So you make decisions and take action in order to survive and be happy but this does not make feelings the guide to happiness. If you feel attracted to someone although it’s an automatic response it does NOT mean that you should pursue that person, because feelings are not a guide to reality or to happiness. I would also like to point out that feelings are an effect of thought. If you come to a certain conclusion about a person you will have a certain emotional response to that conclusion and person. So if you are judging people rationally and by a certain standard your emotions will result from that rational judgement. Emotions are motivators-- thoughts are the motors that make them.
Last week I went to the Alberta court to pay a fine. There, I saw a lady police officer standing in the line in front of me, and I was immediately attracted to her like a 1000-ton magnet attracting a paper clip, I am 46 and never felt like this before in say 20-30 years. To make things complicated, my wife, who was standing beside me, probably "felt" what I had felt and said, "Wow! isn't she so beautiful?" ...I found an opportunity, stepped to the lady office and said "my wife says you are extremely beautiful" the officer blushed and said "thank you". We came home after finding out our case was withdrawn, happy, but the officer was still in my mind. I then asked chatgpt what should I do, it said "time is a healer, give it some time"...Now the experience remains just as an anecdote. The point is "I felt, but I took a rationale decision not to be overridden by my feeling". Feeling is a good starting point for thought or motivation, like captain James T.Kirk we should never let go our ability to feel things, but the end game should always be based on reason and a captain Spocks decision. My Name is Siva Canjeevaram, Calgary, Alberta
2:10 she's right about that . If someone lacks reason like a lot of impulse killings are. Besides the ones where the perpetrator is obviously irrational or disfunctional to a degree, where he/she sooner or later becomes a menace to society. I'm not talking about people with sociopathy , where their reasoning is based on a display of their supposed superiority over the "average" human being. I would argue that those aren't really urges based on emotions, more of a compulsory disorder. It's the same with compulsive lairs, they can't help it. As if their subconsciousnes is getting the better of them. Aren't we all inherently opportunistic, what keeps us from living it out are principles. I'm open for counter arguments :)
As a big fan of Rand as I am there are some things rational can have some shortcomings. Lots of things operate on rational thought, however, the book Crime and Punishment uses rational as a logical way to justify a murder. So it deals with the argument of how much rational vs how much moral instinct and thus does it justify certain actions.
@Rachel&John Hyatt... sure "he" was.. I know a woman when I see one and this is NOT a woman. And I'm being hateful because I love ALL (her) work. More so "the virtue of selfishness" But it is what it IZ... Ayn Rand was a BOY...
