#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism
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What Is Subjectivism?
We don't have a collective mind. There's no collective consciousness. Only individuals reason, just in the same way that only individuals can eat. Nobody can eat for me, and therefore nobody can think for me. So in morality, she is an egoist. She doesn't know truth from our emotions. Our emotions tell us something about ourselves but they are not tools of cognition. They don't tell us the truth about what's out there, about what's in reality. And it is our fundamental, basic responsibility to live our lives,. To choose, once we choose to live, to live our life to the best of our ability.
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