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*An organism's life is its
standard of value: that which furthers its life is the good,
that which threatens it is the evil.
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-Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
"The Objectivist Ethics", 1963
Originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter, February, 1963
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*But man's responsibility
goes still further: a process of thought is not automatic nor "instinctive"
nor involuntary---nor infallible. Man has to initiate it, to
sustain it and to bear responsibility for its results. He has to discover
how to tell what is true or false and how to correct his own errors; he has
to discover how to validate his concepts, his conclusions, his knowledge;
he has to discover the rules of thought, the laws of logic, to
direct his thinking. Nature gives him no automatic guarantee of the
efficacy of his mental effort.
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-Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
"The Objectivist Ethics", 1963
This essay originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter,
February, 1963
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