Egoï$m : Worship Of YourSelf

"Religion's monopoly in the field of ethics has made it extremely difficult to communicate the emotional meaning and connotations of a rational view of life...
"Exaltation"
"Worship"
"Reverence"
"Sacred"...
...such concepts do name actual emotions, even though no supernatural dimension exists; and these emotions are experienced as uplifting or enobling, without the self-abasement required by religious definitions. What, then, is their source or referent in reality? It is the entire emotional realm of man's dedication to a moral ideal...
It is this highest level of man's emotions that has to be redeemed from from the murk of mysticism and redirected at its proper object: man.
It is in this sense, with this meaning and intention, that I would identify the sense of life dramatized in The Fountainhead as 'ManWorship'...
...The 'ManWorship'ers; in my sense of the term are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it."
(Intro:TheFountainhead\AynRand\May63AR)

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