Who is John Galt?

• Metaphysis: "A is A" It is the duty of a human being to see the world as it is, not how one perceives it to be. There is no room for God, under John Galt's view of the world. "Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists,.." ,and, "The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive--a definition that invalidates man's consciousness, and nullifies his concepts of existence."
• Epistemology: John Galt rejects any acceptance of faith, and he rejects any skepticism that certainty of knowledge is not possible. "Walk into any college classroom and you will hear your professors teaching your children that man can be certain of nothing,..."
• Human Nature: John Galt believes that man is a rational being who has complete control over his fate. Otherwise, you are "spending your life in apologies to every professional cannibal".
• Ethics: Logic is the only virtue of any person. Irrational ideas are unethical, or dishonest. "Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals", and, "I swear--by my life and my love of it--that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
• Politics: John Galt believes that only pure Capitalism is acceptable. That it is the only form of government where the "initiation of force" is not used against businesses and individuals.
• Esthetics: Art is only art if it creates or shows the artist's view of reality.

John Galt believed that America was founded by rational men, and that he was going to lead America back to those truths. "This country--the product of reason--could not survive on the morality of sacrifice. It was not built by men who sought handouts. It could not stand on the mystic split that divorced man's soul from his body."--John Galt

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Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States.
---George Washington

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
---The Declaration of Independence

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