Ayn Rand

Anthem, a fictional novel written by Ayn Rand, depicts the portrayal of collectivism in a strictly totalitarian society. The society based in Anthem differs from the society in the United States because individuality, technology, and education are all uncommonly correlated. Ayn Rand defines Equality 7­2521, the protagonist, as being against his collective society and has him discover the significance of individuality. Rand reveals the fears of collectivism that holds his society back from…

thoughts on Rand’s theory of Rational Ethical Egoism, I’ve learned what my family and I decided to do was for Cooper was necessary. I would agree with her Theory considering the situation we were in when we decided to euthanize Copper. I agree with Rand that in our daily life in any situation that comes our way we should always be using our self-reason to determine what’s best for…

the speech it shows the perspective of a man setting up the government and their corrupt ways to get men to join the collectivist society. Within the short novel, Anthem, and the speech “A Soul of a Collectivist” in the book The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, it describes the idea of a collectivist society where there is no individual within society, which explains how these concepts affect society. The rulers in this society create various beliefs, such as the equality of all men and happiness. in…

into nothingness? In the novel, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand takes the readers into a dystopian United States and explores the central stations of Objectivism into its third-dimension. Well, what is objectivism? Objectivism is a philosophical system whereby inductive logic is the way to attain objective knowledge and people seek individualism, work with a hand-off policy from the government, and search one’s own pleasure for that is the purpose of life. Rand uses the symbolic phrase, “Who is John…

Paper #3 The Virtue of Selfishness Ayn Rand thought that there was something wrong with how American/Western culture and its moral thinking was using the term “selfish” and maybe it need some re-evaluation. According to Rand selfishness is that each individual man should be the only intended beneficiary of his own thought and action. Her ethics is about the exercise of my mind in the service of my life; my thinking and my effort making of my life something good. Rand saw selfishness as there…

This dystopian society forbids all people to love or even talk to different sexes. As Rand clarifies, “ For men are forbidden to take notice of women, and women are forbidden to talk notice of men”(38). By stating that, Rand clearly indicates that one of the very basic rights that should be available to all people, love, is taken away from Equality. Equality, however, likes someone, her name is Liberty…

intellectually and physically better or worse they are. People may think that the modern world is molded by this concept; however, they are wrong. It is difficult to imagine a community being equal both physical and mental. After reading Anthem by Ayn Rand, and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnequt Jr. about the future world and the idea of Utopian societies one may see the similarities and ideas of a lot of Utopian societies. Both display acts of equalism, the act of committing transgressions,…

have in life; Well, that's exactly how the dystopia world in " Anthem " by Ayn Rand was for men and women. Men are not allowed to decide on what they wanted in life or talk to anyone else who wasn't in the same class as you. Leaders would discipline or even torture someone when they did anything that involved individualism. Dystopian leader thought it was a sin to try to be higher than what you are assigned to be. Ayn Rand wrote about her Dystopia and Utopia world where a young man who goes by…

Ayn Rand is also noted for her contributions to libertarian philosophy. She is seen as the most influential figure to those who have adopted libertarian styled thinking. Her famous work The Fountainhead is an allegory of one of the larges libertarian ideas. As libertarians, the belief that you are under complete ownership of yourself is a hallmark. There should not be any reason in the world that you are compelled to sacrifice your time unless you are compelled to do so. Consequent to this…

satisfied with the restraints of society and a dystopia being a world of complete despair where all sentient beings suffer. Instead, an anti-utopia is a world in which the citizens believe that the world is a utopia, but in reality it is a dystopia. Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, portrays an anti-utopia in a communistic society as the citizens believe that…