Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism: Basic Knowledge Quiz

Acquiring as much wealth as you can, however you can.

Pursuing momentary pleasures whenever the opportunity arises; avoiding pain whenever possible.

Living according to your emotions and giving charity to others when it gives you pleasure.

Pursuing your own life and long-term happiness by the guidance of facts, and of principles derived from facts.

Always minimizing physical risks to your survival by staying home a lot and avoiding travel to the Middle East.

Altruism means giving your own things to other people, and it's always immoral.

Altruism means giving your own things to other people, and it can be moral if it gives you enjoyment.

Altruism means sacrificing something of higher value to you, for something of lower or no value to you, and it's always immoral.

Altruism means kindness to other people, and it's always immoral.

Altruism doesn't exist; everyone is always self-interested.

Charity is altruism, and it's always evil.

An act of charity is immoral if it doesn't give you joy, but moral if it does.

Charity can be morally extended to good people without limit, but evil people shouldn't get charity from you.

Charity is always moral, so long as it isn't forced on other people.

Charity is not a major virtue, nor a moral duty. It can be moral, if any recipients are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

Man is a greedy, material creature, looking for momentary pleasures.

Man is a soul locked in a corrupt body, battling the body for control until death.

Man is like a robot whose actions are determined by genetics and social conditioning.

Man is a potentially heroic creature of two integrated aspects that can exist in harmony: mind and body.

Man is destined to become either a master or a slave, (dominant or subservient) according to his personality traits.

Selfishness

Rationality

Courage

Integrity

Self-esteem

always being right.

always avoiding all possible fallacies.

going by facts to the best of one's knowledge and ability.

using one's mind and conceptualizing to the fullest practical extent, in the service of one's values.

believing everything Ayn Rand believed.

removing emotion altogether from one's life. Always reacting to things with "cool reason."

suppressing emotions and being less passionate about things than the average person.

acting on the emotion of the moment, but always reasoning about it afterward.

acting on one's thinking about available evidence and shaping one's emotions to one's conscious ideas as much as possible.

acting on emotional responses only when they were ones shared by Ayn Rand.

Laissez-faire capitalism: an established government that only protects individual rights and consists of police, military and courts.

Anarcho-capitalism: a society without an established government that relies on private agencies to protect rights.

Fascism: an established government that nominally recognizes private property, but centrally controls how people use and dispose of property.

Socialism: an established government that does not recognize private property rights to the means of production, and distributes some wealth according to need.

Representative democracy: an established government that does whatever the representatives of the majority wish, without limitation.

Consciousness perceives itself.

Consciousness perceives existence.

God does not exist.

Existence is infinite.

To exist is to be perceived.

your consciousness doesn't perceive reality as it really is.

the universe is spatially infinite.

things are what they are, independent of your mere wishes.

your consciousness can't affect the physical world in any way.

every thing that exists has a specific, non-contradictory nature.

all knowledge starts with the senses.

all knowledge starts with statements of the axioms.

some knowledge starts with innate ideas, while other knowledge starts with the senses.

some knowledge starts with social convention on how to use words, while other knowledge starts with the senses.

all knowledge starts with social convention on how to use words.

the faculty that identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses.

the faculty that operates by deductive logic.

the faculty in man that enables communication between men and women.

the faculty that processes emotions into ideas--man's means of rationalization.

the faculty that combines sensory evidence with innate ideas, to give truth.

evil because it is a political implementation of mysticism, collectivism and altruism.

evil because it seized her father's business.

good because it is the attempt to rationally plan society.

evil because it deposed the czar of Russia, whom she admired.

evil because it prevents business tycoons from becoming rich.