VALUES Index

Ayn Rand defined a value as something any living thing acts to gain possession of or to keep. Whether or not these values keep the entity alive and flourishing is the objective standard by which existence continually tests all their values.

You, as a human being, choose the values you seek.

What is the best life you could possibly have?

Would it be deeply pleasurable, productive, rewarding, satisfying, perhaps even ecstatic and spiritual? (Ayn Rand regarded your "spirit" as your intellect.)

Ayn Rand has demonstrated, for the first time in human history, that it is moral to want these things, and to actually achieve them.

For you to survive and flourish existence requires you to make yourself the primary beneficiary of your own choices.