Objectivism

=Objectivism=
 * (submitted by Amy Amodeo)**

=Definition:= ===**Objectivism** holds that there is mind-independent reality; that individual persons are in contact with this reality through sensory perception; that human beings gain objective knowledge from perception by measurement, and form valid concepts by [|//measurement omission//]; that the proper [|moral] purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own [|happiness] or "rational self-interest"; that the only social system consistent with this morality is [|full respect for individual rights], embodied in pure, consensual //[|laissez-faire]// [|capitalism]; and that the role of art in human life is to transform abstract knowledge, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and respond to with the whole of one's consciousness.===