objectivists
Rational self-interest advocates
Objectivists are adherents of Objectivism, the philosophical system developed by novelist Ayn Rand.
The philosophy holds that reality exists independently of consciousness, that reason is the only means of acquiring knowledge, and that rational self-interest is the proper moral guide.
Objectivists typically advocate laissez-faire capitalism and oppose altruism as a moral duty: The objectivists in the debate club kept citing Atlas Shrugged.
Philosophy of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- existenceState of being real
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
reason · reality · axioms · identity · primacy · volition · free-will · egoism
Basis or justification
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- conceptsAbstract mental constructs
integration · abstraction · validation · certainty · perception · sense-data · inference · context
Private profit-based economy
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- privatizationState sells public assets
trade · profit · production · deregulation · individualism · gold-standard · traders
metaphysics
Philosophy of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- existenceState of being real
consciousness · reason · reality · axioms · identity · primacy · volition · free-will · egoism · self-interest
reason
Basis or justification
concepts · integration · abstraction · validation · certainty · perception · sense-data · inference · context · definitions
capitalism
Private profit-based economy
- laissez-faireNoninterference in commerce
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
privatization · trade · profit · production · deregulation · individualism · gold-standard · traders
Rand
Currency of South Africa
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- nonbelieversatheist, atheists, agnostic, agnostics, nonbeliever
- free marketersAdam Smith, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, free traders, laissez-faire
- realistspragmatists
objectivistsrelativists
Deniers of absolute truth
constructivists · postmodernists · idealists · skeptics · pragmatists
objectivistscollectivists
Group-priority ideology adherents
communists · socialists · Marxists · statists · communitarians