True or False: Ayn Rand's philosophy is essentially about politics.
Ethics: What does "selfishness" mean in Ayn Rand's philosophy?
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.
Ethics: What does Ayn Rand's philosophy say about altruism?
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.
Ethics: What did Ayn Rand say about charity?
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.
Human nature: Which of the following best describes man (humans, in their essence) in Rand's Objectivism?
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.
Ethics: True or False: For Rand, all people are either 100% good or 100% evil; there are no mixed cases.
Ethics: What is the primary virtue that Ayn Rand identifies in her essay, "The Objectivist Ethics"?
Selfishness
Rationality
Courage
Integrity
Self-esteem
Ethics: True or False: Ayn Rand advocated honesty as a virtue.
Ethics: In Objectivism, rationality means...
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.
Ethics: In Objectivism, being rational, rather than an emotionalist, means...
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.
Politics: What governmental system did Ayn Rand advocate?
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.
Metaphysics: Which of the following is a statement of a basic axiom of Objectivism?
Consciousness perceives itself.
Consciousness perceives existence.
God does not exist.
Existence is infinite.
To exist is to be perceived.
Metaphysics: According to Ayn Rand, the axioms of Objectivism imply that...
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.
Epistemology: For humans, according to Objectivism...
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.
Epistemology: Ayn Rand defined reason as...
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.
Politics: In Ayn Rand's view, Communism is...
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.
