Ethical Egoism In Anthem By Ayn Rand

Ethical egoism is the position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self interest. Ayn Rand a woman seen with a sense of apparition, who believed in ethical egoism and used her fictional stories as a way to alert the population of what the government could do was indeed a women with more knowledge and mind than most as it would seem. Her vocabulary included words such as “moochers’ and “looters” as she referred to people that were dependent on the government, and were appropriate because it made her point a lot more true. Rand may had been a person seen as an “apparition” but her views on a population dependent on government, her ethical egoism, and her life story are the reason to why she describes people in a way that most

It is the most normal thing around as some people believe that they actually need as much help as they can get. But is this really the case? I believe not because what people want is to have everything made easier and no one to set a limit for them. As Jennifer Burns explained in her article people don't know when to set the limit to things for, example the use of Ayn Rand's book Anthem in a political debate. Burn’s goes off to say that the most important people at first, “rejected her atheistic philosophy of selfishness” but soon enough after her death even people like Paul Ryan started to use this such philosophy. One of the things that burns is trying to prove is that people do not even know how to separate a fictional book as is Anthem with a real life political problem as simple as it was. Yet although, it was fictional the book itself was a way to bring knowledge of an event that is possible to happen in the

At the end of the book one learns that one must act on an event before change can be seen as a result of the action. Therefore, I agree with Rand that we as a society must fulfill our own self interest to make something change or get an anticipated result. Rand’s ethical egoism leads to many subjects but one that I must agree on is that programs which assist the less fortunate are to be negatively evaluated. One of the reasons for this is because society is just giving but not much is taken into consideration, for example homeless shelter are for the people who do not have enough money or have some type of problem yet most of the people stay in there because it less for them to do and few actually try to get out. So if one acts for their own benefit like getting out of the homeless shelter than there is more to it because not only have they gotten themselves out of that situation where nobody wants to be but they have also proven to the people that all you need is to set your mind to something and reach for that