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1. Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.
That is a very simplistic understanding the universe. In fact the universe is subjective, not objective.
Quantum physics has proven that over and over. Quantum physics has proven for 100 years that everything is subjective, relative and a probability.
2. Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.
Science has sure disproven that one.
3. Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Man evolved as a pack animal. Nothing could be further from the truth. A male baboon will attack a leopard defending the troop knowing he will die. So will a human.
4. The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man’s rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.
Capitalism is an economic idea that has nothing to so with social organization.
Now I understand that this is completely at odds with your existentialism. But existentialism really has no rational framework! It is different for everybody! This is one version of it. Because you are an existentialist you may disagree with any or all of it!
1. Existence Before Essence. · Human life is understandable only in terms of an individual man’s existence, his particular experience of life. A man lives rather than is, and every man’s experience is unique, radically different from everyone else’s and can be understood truly only in terms of his involvement in life or commitment to it.
· There is no Platonic ideal of man—there is no universal of human nature of which each man is only one example. Don’t ask “What is mankind?” Ask: “Who am I?”
· The existentialist insists that each person is unique. He is an entire universe—the center of infinity. |
