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I don't think I'm asking exactly the right question, but what makes life good, in the sense of our nature as human beings? I'm trying to understand what you tak

• mike_organon 17y ago
  That's a fine question, but Rand gives a better answer than I can (if you follow the links). "The Objectivist ethics holds man's life as the standard of value—and his own life as the ethical purpose of every individual man." Ayn Rand http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/standard_of_value.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/standard_of_value.html "There are, in essence, three schools of thought on the nature of the good: the intrinsic, the subjective, and the objective." Ayn Rand http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/good--the.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/good--the.html You ask about good. Good implies value by some valuer. Saying that life is the standard of good is essentially as much as the question can be broken down (Rand gives a lot more detail than I can here). That's not the same proposition as saying "my feelings" are the standard of good, because feelings are based on something, so those need to be explored and reasoned about. You can't reason once you've denied reason or chosen death.