The standard of value of the Objectivist ethics—the standard by which one
judges what is good or evil—is man's life, or: that which is required for
man's survival qua man.
Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life
of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is
the evil.
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