Lesson 4: Rational Ethics
We will now discuss the branch of ethics, that is, the study of how to act. Objectivism holds that man's rational faculty must guide his actions, not faith or epistemic skepticism.
Introduction
Now that we have reviewed the notion of reason in detail, we can proceed to the other two branches of Objectivism which are the subject of this course - ethics and politics. Both these branches concern knowledge - of behaviour and society - and therefore are subject to reason.
We will first examine what is the basis for Objectivist ethics, and the concepts which it introduces. In this lesson, as well as the next, I will again refer to Objectivism : The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.
