Ayn Rands Atheist Objectivism Philosophy

Ayn Rands Atheist Objectivism Philosophy

Ayn Rand's Atheist Objectivism Philosophy
I have a lot of respect of Ayn Rand with her philosophy on life called Objectivism. This view has been applauded and booed. There is no in-between, people love it, or hate it. For me, I love it.
Objectivism is an interesting philosophy. When you take the atheist side of it, Ayn Rand viewed the idea of a higher power as something that undermined human beings. A belief in God was putting yourself down.
Objectivism isn't like atheism though. It is a belief that the human mind is the highest power. That our mind is something that needs to expressed as the most powerful entity. We shouldn't spend our lives trying to live by religious rules and suck up to a God that may or may not exist, just for a chance to spend time in a place that may not exist.
The view is that we are our own highest power and our mind is the highest power. We need to use our minds to create the great things that make our lives great. We should be living to the best of our potential now, instead of gambling on a future in our next life.
The reasons a lot of people don't like her philosophy is because she holds up the ideals of individuality and individual freedom. She viewed the individual (and their mind) as the heroes of society. These ideals really conflict with a huge number of religiously apathetic and atheist people. If you look at political philosophies such as communism, that is an atheist movement, but it's a movement that rejects individuality for collective rule.
This is small breakdown of Ayn Rand's atheist philosophy called objectivism. It's a great philosophy that embraces the mind as the highest power and individuals as the heroes of society.
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