Part one of term paper
Objectivism is a philosophy which developed around a woman named Ayn Rand in the 50s and 60s. She came to the country from Russia in the 1920s and worked in Hollywood as an extra in pictures and as a writer. Her most famous books are actually works of fiction, WE THE LIVING, THE FOUNTAINHEAD, and ATLAS SHRUGGED. In them, she portrays her ...

Part two of term paper
... objective reality exists independent of consciousness. This implies that consciousness PERCEIVES reality, but does not CREATE reality. We are forced to live within the confines of reality. Hence, "wishing does not make it so." There are definite laws of causality which are in effect, and are inescapable. She attempts to derive a morality from this view of metaphysics. She believe that man (sic) is a certain type of being: a rational animal. Man is the only form of being which must actually t ...