This is a collective of Ayn Rand fans in the Philippines. The group's purpose is to encourage Ayn Rand readers to converge and share ideas and thoughts about AR's philosophy and its impact on the Philippine setting.
There is no doubt that the Philippines is currently in Atlas Shrugged moment as the Philippine government is becoming bigger and bigger to the extent of disregarding individuals' civil liberties. This is not a political group- and, to the information of everybody, this group is non-partisan. Everybody has to use his absolute weapon- his reason and mind- to analyze things and decide for his own benefit and self-interest.
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Ayn Rand on Politics:
The answers given by ethics determine how man should treat other men, and this determines the fourth branch of philosophy: politics, which defines the principles of a proper social system. As an example of philosophy’s function, political philosophy will not tell you how much rationed gas you should be given and on which day of the week—it will tell you whether the government has the right to impose any rationing on anything.
The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men.
It is political philosophy that sets the goals and determines the course of a country’s practical politics. But political philosophy means: abstract theory to identify, explain and evaluate the trend of events, to discover their causes, project their consequences, define the problems and offer the solutions.
Politics is based on three other philosophical disciplines: metaphysics, epistemology and ethics—on a theory of man’s nature and of man’s relationship to existence. It is only on such a base that one can formulate a consistent political theory and achieve it in practice. When, however, men attempt to rush into politics without such a base, the result is that embarrassing conglomeration of impotence, futility, inconsistency and superficiality which is loosely designated today as “conservatism.” Objectivists are not “conservatives.” We are radicals for capitalism; we are fighting for that philosophical base which capitalism did not have and without which it was doomed to perish.

Ayn Rand on Free Will:
"That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call “free will” is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character." (read less)

This is a collective of Ayn Rand fans in the Philippines. The group's purpose is to encourage Ayn Rand readers to converge and share ideas and thoughts about AR's philosophy and its impact on the Philippine setting.
There is no doubt that the Philippines is currently in Atlas Shrugged moment as the Philippine government is becoming bigger and bigger to the extent of disregarding individuals' civil liberties. This is not a political group- and, to the information of everybody, this group is... (read more)