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One can look at one’s goals in life from a number of different perspectives, and the list can be endless, starting from achieving worldly success to developing intimacy in relationships, acquiring virtues, knowledge and wisdom, helping others, seeking personal growth and working towards spiritual goals for self-actualisation. Today I want to discuss just one of the ways in which one can understand life goals in general terms that will apply to each one of us. This concept is borrowed from the ancient Indian understanding. According to this the goals in life can be understood in terms of the following four…
I have believed in what most religions and many philosophies say – that we all have freewill. That who we are today is the product of our choices made in the past – perhaps including a previous life as well. But so far I have not been able to figure out which thought of mine was a product of my freewill and which one an automatic product (effect) of some previous cause inside or outside of myself. The creator of a thought should be able to differentiate between these two categories – otherwise how can you say he has exercised…
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was an American philosopher who coined the word objectivism for her philosophical ideas. Her novel Fountainhead was made into a film in 1949 with Gary Cooper in the lead role. Her subsequent book, Atlas Shrugged, fully defined what would become the four tenets of objectivism: reality, reason (rationalism), self-interest (independence) and Laissez-faire capitalism. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in a middle class family. Her father owned a pharmacy which was taken over by the Bolshevik revolutionary groups and the family, who had enjoyed a decent independent living thus far, had to move in with their…