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Who is someone who you admire or has influenced you?
The great philosopher and writer, Friedrich Nietzsche, once said: “That which you gaze upon you become”. Therefore, it is imperative to carefully decide who will, in effect, form the very underpinnings of your thought, judgment, and practice. Indeed, I admire many people, and choosing just one to write about was difficult, but no one has had a greater influence on my thought and judgment than Ayn Rand. As I will detail in the following paragraphs, my outlook of politics, art, and life, have all been, in large, structured by Rand and her writings.
Politics, a subject matter I believe people would rather ignore quite honestly, is full of opinion and thus obscured by it. Consequently, Ayn Rand and her writing were a treatment and a cure through the obscurity, and helped me establish a firm belief in capitalism and individualism, and a strong rejection of communism, socialism, and collectivism. For instance, I first truly encountered the idea of individualism in Rand’s second novel The Fountainhead, in which the main character Howard Roark demonstrates the principle through his preference of modern architecture, which was heavily detested by the collective public. This lesson heavily inspired me and is the archetypical reason why I Rand so greatly.
I stated that I admired Ayn Rand greatly for her principles as they were in the political sector. However, Rand’s individualistic principles drip into the pure waters of the world of art as well. Rand used Howard Roark to show her envision of the ideal human spirit, and in turn radically changed my envision as well, that individual uniqueness should be championed in any case over the collective normality, especially in the realm of art.
Rand’s philosophy goes well beyond politics or art, but strike at the very roots of life itself and at the very core of my own philosophy. In short, Ayn’s ideas of a society are synonymous to maximum freedom; that you should be free as an individual to try and experiment with fear, but not through the desire to beat other but to achieve. This, I believe is the epitome of my thoughts and judgments, and defines my beliefs in capitalism, and my criticism of failed political theories mentioned previously.
To conclude, my admiration for Ayn Rand, as you’ve read, is anchored to her philosophical teachings of politics, art, and life, all of which form of the basis, or underpinnings, of my own thought, judgments, and practice.
Who is someone who you admire or has influenced you?
The great philosopher and writer, Friedrich Nietzsche, once said: “That which you gaze upon you become”. Therefore, it is imperative to carefully decide who will, in effect, form the very underpinnings of your thought, judgment, and practice. Indeed, I admire many people, and choosing just one to write about was difficult, but no one has had a greater influence on my thought and judgment than Ayn Rand. As I will detail in the following paragraphs, my outlook of politics, art, and life, have all been, in large, structured by Rand and her writings.
Politics, a subject matter I believe people would rather ignore quite honestly, is full of opinion and thus obscured by it. Consequently, Ayn Rand and her writing were a treatment and a cure through the obscurity, and helped me establish a firm belief in capitalism and individualism, and a strong rejection of communism, socialism, and collectivism. For instance, I first truly encountered the idea of individualism in Rand’s second novel The Fountainhead, in which the main character Howard Roark demonstrates the principle through his preference of modern architecture, which was heavily detested by the collective public. This lesson heavily inspired me and is the archetypical reason why I Rand so greatly.
I stated that I admired Ayn Rand greatly for her principles as they were in the political sector. However, Rand’s individualistic principles drip into the pure waters of the world of art as well. Rand used Howard Roark to show her envision of the ideal human spirit, and in turn radically changed my envision as well, that individual uniqueness should be championed in any case over the collective normality, especially in the realm of art.
Rand’s philosophy goes well beyond politics or art, but strike at the very roots of life itself and at the very core of my own philosophy. In short, Ayn’s ideas of a society are synonymous to maximum freedom; that you should be free as an individual to try and experiment with fear, but not through the desire to beat other but to achieve. This, I believe is the epitome of my thoughts and judgments, and defines my beliefs in capitalism, and my criticism of failed political theories mentioned previously.
To conclude, my admiration for Ayn Rand, as you’ve read, is anchored to her philosophical teachings of politics, art, and life, all of which form of the basis, or underpinnings, of my own thought, judgments, and practice.