/lit/ - Literature

Unironically, the final boss of philosophy is Ayn Rand because you have to recognize that she is 90% right about everything but the part that she isn't right about requires you to deconstruct her entire philosophy and stand on your own which only a few people can do. Even people in most objectivist circles don't do this. Once you beat Ayn Rand by fixing her, you genuinely beat the final boss of philosophy, and then you find the secret boss: Robin Hanson. That's when you realize that you can't transcend the unconscious and the signalling game that permeates every human action which its realization makes you more cynical and pessimistic than any actual pessimism philosopher.

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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 and inductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (rational self-interest), that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally. Morals are derived by the fact that we only have one life to live and that we should live it to the fullest to what makes each person individualistically happy while not impeaching on others personal rights.