GALT'S SPEECH: paragraphs 20-43 (Objectivist metaethics)

¶ 20: Man's life requires thought.
¶ 21: Thinking is volitional.
¶ 22: Volitional beings have no automatic courses of behavior; Definition of value, virtue; Value: to whom and for what; Value presupposes a standard, a purpose, and the necessity of action in the face of an alternative.
¶ 23: Fundamental alternative: Life versus Death.
¶ 24: Plants.
¶ 25: Animals.
¶ 26: Man.
¶ 30-33: Man's life as the standard; your own life as the purpose.
¶ 35-36: Happiness.
¶ 39: Choice to live: "basic act of choice."
¶ 40: Choice to live as a man: "act of moral choice."
¶ 41: Choice to think: "act of moral choice."
¶ 43: Re-evaluation versus identification of values (Nietzsche?).

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