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Page 7 of 13 Independence: According to Rand: “Independence is one's acceptance of the responsibility of forming one's own judgments and of living by the work of one's own mind Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinchhitter can live your life—that the vilest form of selfabasement and selfdestruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his sayso as truth, his edicts as middleman between your consciousness and your existence." Smith explains: “While a person can learn from others, to accept another person's conclusions without thinking them through of himself – without examining the evidence for premises, for instance, or checking the logic of inferences – is to repress to the performance of parrot. The result of such an exercise is not knowledge. Why is it a virtue? A person's success depends, ultimately, on his effectively navigating the world as it is, not other people's beliefs about the way the world is. |
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