“ My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute”. (www.aynrand.org)

It is noteworthy that in order to describe and understand the essence of any philosophy, Objectivism included, extensive reflection is due to be given to the following issues:

1) Metaphysics – which becomes the study of Objective Reality in Rand’s system of philosophical thought;

2) Epistemology – the theory of perception which in Objectivism is founded upon Reason;

3) Ethics – which is based on Self-interest as well as a Value Theory;

4) Politics – leading to an unprecedented praise of Capitalism or, to be more precise, of the laissez-faire type of Capitalism (Rand, par 1)

When Rand was asked to “process” all those four factors into plain English so that they would be more readily comprehended, she ended

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