Objectism
ObjectismObjectivism
Objectivism can be broken into 5 main categories. They are Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. Each of these makes up Ayn Rand�s philosophy, which is called objectivism.
Metaphysics is the belief that everything one knows they know only because they believe it to be true. Everything that is known can�t be truly proven to be true because it is based on our perception of things. If a tabletop is hard, it is only because one perceives it to be hard and has been told that it is so. If someone burns their hand on a hot iron they could actually be freezing their hand but our senses tell us it hurts and not until the influence of everyone else�s thoughts, do you know that it burns rather then freezes.
Epistemology says that the only way of learning is through reason. Everything we know is perceived through reason. If we, as a race, didn�t understand reason, we couldn�t understand reality and existence itself. One knows the order of events because of time. We understand time because we realize that there is existence between events. Things happen in a certain order and not everything happens at once.
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