Objectivisim

Created by author Ayn Rand, Objectivisim is the philosophy that stresses the goals and rights of individuals. Rand argued that "there is no greater moral goal in life than achieving one's own happiness".

Essentially, followers of Objectivisim strive for a capitalistic laziez faire society where scientists and industrialists can be left unhinderd to pursue thier trade that will, in the end benifit society as a whole.

In her books, Ran idealizes the "producer" who lives by his own efforts, who does not give or recive undeserved and honors achivement over envy.



Ayn Rand's own words on what objectivism is.
The survival of the organism is the ultimate value to which all of the organism's activities are aimed, the end served by all of its lesser values

My philosophy, Objectivism, holds that:

Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.

Reason(the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.

The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man’s rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the

They see religion as a short circuit of society holding back many of its greatest thinkers and inventors. Faith is a disease that gives humans the ability to hold themselves and others back without any evidence or reason.

Existence exists

Objectivists see the world acing independently of the mind


Existence exists" is most easily understood by noting that when another person dies, you continue to live, to go to work, to eat, etc. even though the other person has absolutely no thoughts at all about the world once he is dead: the world exists not in anyone's mind, but independently of it. Accordingly, Objectivism concludes that the nature of things is objective: an Oak tree rises perpendicularly to the earth whether or not you believe that to be the case - A is A.

Objectivism asserts that logic is man's means of concept formation/knowledge, and that truths are absolutes.

Because every individual is faced with the same choice - to live or to die - Objectivism holds that each individual should be the beneficiary of his own actions: each man should live and think for his own sake, not for others'. In other words, rational self interest is the ethics of Objectivism. Accordingly, Objectivism is the antithesis of altruism, in which each man either sacrifices himself for others, or sacrifices others for himself.

http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth-32-408-FAQ_is_Objectivism.aspx
http://www.mondopolitico.com/ideologies/atlantis/whatisobjectivism.htm
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_intro