Ayn Rand

Since Rand believed in free enterprise, she could have been an advocate for privatizing the water treatment process. If a business depended on satisfied customers, no business owner/employee would want to make several unethical decisions to lose profit. Rand believes that it is a business’ decision whether or not to make ethical decisions, but recognized that a business would fail if it did not act in some sort of ethical manner. Rand would argue that a government has…

In the book Anthem being like everyone else is what they want you to be. They don’t want you to be your own person and they don’t want you to make your own decisions. They want to pick everything for you, and to be honest, who could ever live like that? Being like everyone else would be boring and nobody would be unique. The first consequence of not being an individual is not being able to pick what career field you go into. In Anthem they have certain houses people are assigned to live in…

#4. Explain the following quote: “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.” How does this quote exemplify a theme of Anthem? Destruction. That’s what our world will be like in the future, according to Ayn Rand in her story Anthem. These are the unmentionable times, we have the technology, yet they have none of ours. They have candles instead of lights and most importantly they even lost their own individuality. “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE,…

Introduction In philosophy, selfishness is the hypothesis that one's self is, or ought to be, the inspiration and the objective of one's own activity. Egoism has two variations, descriptive or normative . The descriptive (or positive) variation imagines selfishness as a real depiction of human issues. That is, people are roused by their own advantages and cravings, and they can't be depicted something else. The normative variation recommends that people ought to be so spurred, paying little…

someone breaking free and bringing down the dystopian society. This “hero is normally started on this path when the dystopian environment is too much for them and they break in a way. It is no surprise that in the book Anthem which is written by Ayn Rand that the main character's dystopian environment affects them by controlling human relationships, forbidding individuality, and looking down upon eccentricity. The dystopian environments that control human relationships are common among dystopian…

pursue. Humans have senses for a reason, to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. Somehow holding the door open for an elderly woman seems to build a sense rightness in me that I can't explain, yet I know it’s the right thing to do. Rand states that, “The purpose of morality, is to teach us what is in our self-interest, what produces happiness.” Sometimes in life you have to put your own needs before others. This doesn't always necessarily make a person selfish. This can be…

Everyone defines his own liberty Society is made of individualist, without individualists there would be no society. Going even further, the term society is actually an illusion and the individuals are its reality. Individualist have the choice to come to gather and to form an assemblage. Because society is just an imagination and a fiction it does not exist and individualists’ liberty is limitless. The reason why in every epoch man must seek his freedom not at the beginning but at the end of…

A critical point in American history came when the people of this country ordered changed from the failures of the articles of confederal. The articles of confederation shared interest between another 13 other states.The articles of confederation failed because they did not give the national government enough power.It didn't give congress the power to tax so the goverment had to print money and by printing money it cause inflation. Americans are once again debating the issues of national or…

Man’s Inhumanity to Man The breakdown of society is led by man’s inhumanity towards one another because when men are being cruel to one another it breaks down the society. It is like saying that their is a building full of people if one person starts to argue with another then eventually everyone will start to argue and it will cause fights. Man’s inhumanity to man is the state or quality of being inhumane or cruel. The book Animal Farm, The book The Moon is Down, and the book Anthem all three…

for individual thought. Most people in this society would gladly go along with whatever the leaders say because they know best. Some people have written books based on this idea of a equal society. One of these books is a novelette called Anthem by Ayn Rand and the society that is ruling in Anthem uses collectivism to rule the world. The concept of collectivism in Anthem is justified by the leaders who believe that in order to have equality the people cannot have any individual thought and that…