I agree with Steve - Objectivism is just another lens. The question I ask is not how proveable it is, but rather how I can use it's ideas for best advantage (how to determine what's of best advantage, and of best advantage to whom, I'll leave that to another debate). Suffice to say, after such qualitifications, I find Objectivism to be an extremely effective philosophy because it equates one's acts of creation and work as a projection of the self. This can only happen if one takes full responsibility for oneself and one's creations.
Her philosophy also supports possessing core values and standing by them no matter what. This is illustrated time and time again in her two most known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, as the characters assert their own values and individual power over conformity.
Basically, I find that this philosophy puts you in a position where you offer value to the world instead of leaching it into a Black Hole to fill your self-esteem void. |