We invite you at CADI on Friday, 4th February at 1800 to take part in a discussion about objectivism, starting from a Ayn Rand’s text.

“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy—nor a social convention—nor a dispensable, subjective luxury, to be switched or discarded in any emergency. Ethics is an objective, metaphysical necessity of man’s survival—not by the grace of the supernatural nor of your neighbors nor of your whims, but by the grace of reality and the nature of life.” Ayn Rand, Objectivist Ethics.

Seen in many occasions as a practical, motivational philosophical movement, having the support of the readers from the big private companies’ environment, objectivism became popular in the United States of America because it delivered to its advocates an ethic system focused on the fact that an individual is obliged to be rational and a behavioural guide for a life lead by objective goals, usually the goals are also pragmatic. In the same time, the objectivism uses arguments, that have their origins in liberalism, for the individual’s rights and liberties, for a “laissez-faire” capitalism, put it raises questions concerning its logic and theoretical structure and regarding its final consequences. Rejecting any type of mysticism, as not being objectively determined by the individual’s rationality, the objectivism’s advocates were intolerant in relation with any kind of religious manifestation, having as argument the fact that the altruism has lead humanity to socialism-communist and totalitarian solutions.

Program

18:00 Sorin Manica presents

18:20 Discutii

Useful links

Ayn Rand, 1964, „The Objectivist Ethics„, in The Virtue of Selfishness

Sorin Manica, 2011, „Obiectivismul lui Ayn Rand sau separarea statului de economie” (draft) soon to appear in Curentele intelectuale ale dreptei contemporane (Dragos Aligica & Ionut Sterpan, editors), Humanitas