“I’d like to start tonight with a little thought experiment,” said the man in the gray suit. “Imagine you must choose today between two moral codes. One says that your life is the most important thing in the world…and provides you with an abundance of guidance about how to make your life wonderful. The second moral code says that your life is unimportant, that you should give up the things that make your life great.”
The first moral code, it turns out, is Ayn Rand’s unique system of ethics, known as rational egoism or objectivism. The second is its polar opposite, the philosophy of altruism.
The man in the suit was Craig Biddle, editor of The Objective Standard and author of “Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It,” who spoke Tuesday evening to a group of approximately 90 students in Building 320.
Biddle’s lecture, which event organizer and Objectivists of Stanford President Evan Storms ’13 said was intended to give attendees a “concrete, easy-to-understand introduction to objectivist morality,” provided listeners with a two-hour survey course in the philosophy and ethics of Ayn Rand, author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.”
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