ETHICS Index

Starting with a total acceptance of reality, and using her new system of knowledge validation, Ayn Rand developed a rational system you can use to make the best possible choices in life. Read her book 'The Virtue of Selfishness' to gain a greater appreciation of the brilliance of her achievement.

1. Face squarely the alternative of life or death. Life
2. Use reason to stay alive. Alive
3. Selfishly seek your life, your values, and your happiness. Values
4. Your reason must win over your emotions. Emotion
5. Cultivate the Objectivist virtues. Virtues
6. Understand that initiating physical force is evil. Force