id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9932 Objectivism - Wikipedia .html text/html 10160 1523 63 Objectivism's main tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception (see direct and indirect realism), that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (see rational egoism), that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9932.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9932.txt