Logic and Principles of Logic as A Means in The Philosophy Objectivism of Ayn Rand

For Ayn Rand, founder of the philosophy of objectivism, “life” is the most valuable thing a person can have. In his view, human being has to think how to get knowledge for surviving his /her life. Thinking is possible with reason; that is, human being can survive in terms of his/her intellect. However, in order to have a good action and be successful via intellectual life, he/she has to focus on the following three rules: logic, goal, and self-respect. Logic becomes a means in the philosophy of objectivism who aims to provide human life with guidance. In the basis of Rand’s philosophy, there is the notion of “objective reality”. Objective reality exists independently from emotions and expectations of human being. This reality reveals itself regarding three axioms: existence, consciousness, identity. These a priori and self-evident axioms remind the three principles of classical logic: identity, contradiction, excluded middle (or third). Ayn Rand accepts logic as a means for revealing the absolute power of the philosophy of objectivism in terms of the above three principles