Friday, February 22, 2008

Ayn Rand

Happiness
Her true feelings about happiness aren't present in her book Anthem. I feel as though that book contradicts her real feelings. In her Lexicon it states, "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." In Anthem, happiness wasn't allowed to be 'one's value' but every ones shared value. It was to be every ones united emotion.
Another thing that completely threw me off was when she sad, "Just as I do not consider the pleasure of others as the goal of my life, so I do not consider my pleasure as the goal of the lives of others." This is completely different from her book because no one was allowed to think for themselves. No one could have their own success.