Ayn Rand described purpose as man\u2019s \u201cchoice of the happiness which [his reason] must proceed to achieve.\u201d It is one of the three \u201csupreme and ruling\u201d values that she wrote are \u201cthe means to and the realization of one\u2019s ultimate value, one\u2019s own life.\u201d In this talk, Dr. Salmieri explores this distinctive aspect of the Objectivist ethics, with special attention to what it means to value one\u2019s choice of happiness, and how such a choice can be both a part of one\u2019s ultimate end and an essential means to it.

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Ayn Rand described purpose as man\u2019s \u201cchoice of the happiness which [his reason] must proceed to achieve.\u201d It is one of the three \u201csupreme and ruling\u201d values that she wrote are \u201cthe means to and the realization of one\u2019s ultimate value, one\u2019s own life.\u201d In this talk, Dr. Salmieri explores this distinctive aspect of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[505,435,216,477,379,158],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-choice","tag-happiness","tag-life","tag-ocon","tag-purpose","tag-values","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}