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The Nature of Evil

The moral is the rational. The evil is the irrational. And remember that this means that the moral is that which is in accordance with reality, and the evil is that which attempts to go against the facts of reality. Within man’s consciousness, the issue of good and evil consists of a single… read more

The Law of Identity

If you grasp firmly the meaning and the difference of these two concepts, “something” and “nothing,” you have grasped the two broadest fundamentals of philosophy: existence and non-existence. To be nothing means: not to exist. To exist means: to be something. To be something means: to be… read more

The Evil of Self-Sacrifice

The view of existence contained in the altruist ethics is that disaster, calamity, and destruction are the normal and inevitable conditions of human life. Suffering, pain, and death swallow up the altruist’s view of life. He does not ask: “How should man achieve happiness?” He asks: “How should man… read more

Rationality and Causality

One of the characteristics of a rational man is his respect for the Law of Causality, his concern with knowing what causes are needed to achieve his goals, and what will be the effect of achieving them. One of the chief characteristics of irrationalists is their attempt to escape the Law of… read more

Justice vs. Mercy

“Mercy” is a concept that applies to, and is called upon, only by the evil, never by the good. If a man has committed a heroic or a virtuous deed, what he asks is justice, not mercy. If a man has committed a despicable or vicious deed, what he dreads is justice, and what he cries for is mercy.… read more

Sense as Necessarily Valid

Leonard Peikoff, "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand."

Happiness

Just as life cannot be achieved by any random means, neither can happiness. ("The Basic Principles of Objectivism" by Nathaniel Branden.)