Questions tagged [ayn-rand]

Questions about the philosophy of Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982), a Russian-America best-known for her novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957). She developed a system she called Objectivism which presents her philosophy.

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Is Ayn Rand's objectivism incompatible with delayed gratification?

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. — Ayn Rand Giving a bit of…
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