/lit/ - Literature

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>Human beings, and, indeed, the human race as a whole are not eternal
Certainly not the human body, but there are topics interesting to the human intellect which are indeed eternal, and ethics is one of them. What is truly good has always been good and will always be good, everywhere and anywhere.
Desires can correspond to physical needs (water, food, sleep, etc...) or social needs (prestige, power, companionship, etc...) and those are temporary in nature, but there are desires which are abstracted from any particular physical context. The final act of the Fountainhead is about letting go of any desire of control over others, and to pursue creation for the sake of creation itself, and not as a means to something else.