Like other philosophical viewpoints, objectivism is a lens through which you can view reality. You don't need to prove it; trying to prove a lens makes no sense. You can simply pick it up and use it to explore how it works.
Objectivity itself is a lens, so any philosophy that tries to prove anything objectively is building its entire argument within the scope of that lens... piling everything on top on an unprovable assumption. Within the objective lens you can prove certain things, but such proofs have no meaning outside that lens and therefore cannot be considered fundamental truths. Objective proofs are merely observations of the properties of the objective lens.
As far as lenses go, I think objectivism is a fairly interesting one, worthy of being included in our philosophical toolkit. Objectivism can't be proven objectively because objectivism doesn't fall completely within the scope of the objective lens; objectivism has both objective and subjective aspects. |